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|WALLACE: Good evening. Tonight we go after the latest chapter in the story of a woman who fought her way back from alcoholism and despair, to become again one of the most compelling figures in show business. She is Lillian Roth, a million dollar film star at eighteen, an alcoholic at thirty, a great torch singer only five years ago and today a woman with a new story to tell.
|If you're curious to know why Lillian Roth says that the past five years have been among the most difficult in her life, if you want to hear her thoughts on her conversion to Catholicism, and if you want to know why Miss Roth says that despite her recent success, she is forever trying to fill what she calls an aching, a frightening void within herself, we'll go after those stories in just a moment. My name is Mike Wallace, the cigarette is Parliament.
|WALLACE: We'll talk with Lillian Roth in just a moment.
|WALLACE: And now to our story. Several years ago, an all but forgotten entertainer by the name of Lillian Roth, wrote a brutally frank autobiography called I'll Cry Tomorrow. It was made into a successful Hollywood film. Miss Roth herself was swamped with offers to appear in television, nightclubs. Since then Miss Roth has forged a new life, which she has written about in a new book, to be published later this month, called Beyond My Worth.
|Lillian, first of all, let me ask you this: After your remarkable comeback a few years ago I'd imagine that the general public's impression of you is that of a happy and successful woman, who has finally found her way. Yet, in your new book, Beyond My Worth you wrote this: you said: "I've had mornings recently when I woke up and my whole life seemed in chaos and I've said to myself, I've fallen back... I've fallen back again." Why have you felt that way?
|ROTH: Well, Mike, I guess it's something that stems from my childhood. I've never quite felt up to of the many amazing things that happened to me. I've never felt at school that I was as pretty as the next child, or as clever as the next child, and anytime anything happens to me, I just thought it was luck. And that was mostly all through my life, and if I did a performance and the audience were wonderful to me, I thought it really wasn't good enough, it could have been better. I've never felt quite adequate, and because...
|WALLACE: And so even now, in spite of the fact that you have overcome what obstacles you have overcome...
|ROTH: Well, you see, when I say: Beyond My Worth, I honestly feel I haven't done anything extraordinary. The public has been amazing. I've gotten mail from all over the world you'd think I was a miracle woman. And I'm not! It's through these people and with the help of God that I have been able to overcome so much, but the inadequacy and the guilt within me is still very strong and many times I feel I'm just not what they... I'm not what I seem to be.
|WALLACE: I gather that you find a real responsibility, an awesome responsibility in the very fact of your comeback.
|ROTH: I think that the battle of success is probably more difficult than the climb. People expect too much from you -- or rather, you want to be all that people expect from you, I shouldn't say that they expect too much of me because they're pretty good about it -- But it isn't only that you have to deliver the gift of your entertainment as the good Lord gifted you, but there are other things in your life and I've never professed to be a saint or a martyr. There are many people in the world overcoming greater problems which I tell of in Beyond My Worth. But comparatively speaking, mine seems simple, but this inner conflict, this inner thing that I have, I think too telling the truth about it makes people realize that they're not alone. You see people used to be able to say, "Lillian, let me help you up," after I took that first long step alone.
|WALLACE: Yes.
|ROTH: But now, through the mail I've started to feel that people were wondering if they could talk up there to me. And I'm not up there; I don't want to be up there where the people are concerned only as a performer. I want to be right alongside with them.
|WALLACE: You get a tremendous number of letters, I gather, calls from people who are also in a kind of pain, and trying to find their way and figure you've done it, and perhaps you can help them to find it for themselves.
|ROTH: Well, I... it isn't just problem letters I get. After all I'm not the know-all, see-all, and I haven't the answer to everything, but the type mail I get comes from psychiatrists, doctors, writers, priests, ministers, and there are lonely ministers, nuns, and priests all over the world and I can read between their lines too, and they think that this certainly shows the grace of God being bestowed and my difference of course is that I don't think God graces one person and not the next. But I am very grateful for their affection.
|WALLACE: Tell me this: Does the fear of sliding back, of hitting rock-bottom again, does that worry you, or do you feel you're over that hump?
|ROTH: Well, they say that... I mean, even if you should slip back a little, it isn't really slipping back. If you fall slightly, that's just another step up. I mean to step down is to step up. Sometimes we're forced to be knocked down a little bit, and then we gather our forces together, and we're that much stronger when we go again. I don't think... I think once you've hit the bottom you're not afraid down there. You just feel you don't want to disappoint people.
|WALLACE: Of course one of the things that sparked your comeback was your book, I'll Cry Tomorrow... and I'm sure this latest book, which is also quite revealing, will do your career no harm. Let me ask you this: Did you never think it undignified, Lillian; did you never think it in bad taste for a woman to write so candidly of her personal life and of the life of others?
|ROTH: Truthfully, I wasn't happy about any of it... I think I told you when I spoke to you a year ago... there's no glory in being a glorified alcoholic. If these were the steps I had to take, and there seemed to be a force that worked it out... I know when I first worked on my book coming from Australia 10 years ago, and through the years -- speaking of I'll Cry Tomorrow -- I shelved it. I closed the book and said: 'That woman!'
|But after this is your life, After Ralph had prevailed on me, and even there I didn't want to do it. I was hesitant. It was terrible panic when I first went to Australia. It... it just isn't a good feeling to know that you have other gifts, but I rated what was done. I mean, I rated the fact that I didn't deserve any better than to be called an alcoholic and I don't know why I should have expected extra...
|WALLACE: But, why did you want to write about it? Why did you want to tell and, and not only about yourself, but you wrote fairly graphically about, for instance, about being beaten by one husband, about your wedding night with another husband, a fairly prominent man, about emotional scenes with your mother. Why have... why did you find it necessary to write about these things?
|ROTH: Well I didn't feel that I was writing an expose, I felt I was disclosing rather than exposing. My husband felt from the inception that if I wrote everything out... I remember when I first went to a hospital for slightly mentally unbalanced, from 12, 13 years ago, I said even then I wanted to write a book... but then they told me everybody that comes in here has a book to write. So I kept it to myself for some time. But Bert told me it isn't a case of being a martyr. He said this, "In telling all and freeing yourself, and the world being a big jury, they're very fair; and in doing that, maybe somebody along to this will be helped." I'm not going to tell you that my thought was I'm going to go out and be a martyr now and help the world. I didn't feel that way; I was frightened to death when this book came out.
|WALLACE: Diana Barrymore, who wrote a somewhat similar book, told us that she did it as a catharsis to get the past out of her system. Was that...? You smile when I say that.
|ROTH: Well, I really... I'm not living my past any more. I'm creating new thoughts and new habits. A priest once told me, this may answer it by a thought, that there are certain bad characteristics or formation of a bad character that is always there with bad habits, but you can create good habits and work on them so often that you form a new character and I feel that if... I'm not speaking, necessarily about Miss Barrymore, but anyone that continues to live as they lived in the past, isn't doing anything to send out a message or to help someone in distress. Not that they have to. But what is the sense of the book? If you're going to go to all this embarrassment, you might be helpful while doing it. And I... I think it has... well, I shouldn't speak about what it's proven, but it has helped many people be able to overcome certain pain that they've had.
|WALLACE: I'm certain of that. Have you ever wondered, though, why the American public seems to be so fascinated with this kind of story? Is it possibly just the desire to look... to look across the courtyard into somebody else's open window?
|ROTH: Well, I think where my story is concerned, it goes back to an old philosophy that I read that said, "In each man's heart there's a secret sorrow that the world knows nothing about." And often we call a man 'cold' when he's really just sad. And I think that humanity feels that their sorrow is for you and their compassion is for you, but it has touched a part of their hearts that they will not open the door themselves. They won't even begin... and in the subconscious the tie is there...
|WALLACE: They see a little of themselves in you and that is why they want to read and hear and...
|ROTH: Yes, and... and even youngsters that write to me, they tell me they understand the problems at home more and I just think it's reached, that's all.
|WALLACE: Let's look at some of the things you write about. One of them, which helped you rehabilitate yourself, has been religion. In your new book, you write with complete assurance... "God loves me." How do you know He does?
|ROTH: Because I think God is all loving, just as a parent would be, that they love their children good, bad or indifferent. And it's often been said, I believe, sum and substance of the Bible is that little black sheep that strayed away, that worries him so very much, He hopes it will come back some day.
|WALLACE: Lillian, who is God?
|ROTH: God is everything that's quite wonderful and the... you know I always quote because I think that the authenticity of a thing... After all I'm a new writer, I don't even know if I have a great talent except of telling of myself and giving of myself. But a man like Emerson says that God made... almost everything He made had a crack in it... and I thought that was such a good thought. We have... we don't have this feeling of perfection, but to please Him we'd like to improve ourselves. And I think he's all loving and he's always there, we just don't always know it.
|WALLACE: Let me pursue this a little more specifically. You were born into a Jewish family, yet several years ago you converted to Catholicism. Why was Judaism apparently unsatisfactory, unfulfilling for you?
|ROTH: Oh, I don't think that Judaism was a case of unfulfillment, I think that Catholicism is a fulfillment of Judaism as far as the acceptance of the Messiah. It... My only difficulty has been in the last two years with all my respect to the Church because it doesn't make me right and the Church wrong, I can't go in and say now this is Lillian's way of doing it. I just felt that certain man made dogma little things simple as a child. They say "Come as little children." Well, some of the little flaws or that I felt were flaws, flaws within myself -- the question -- were child like things, and I have never denied my Judaism and as a matter of fact, I learned...
|WALLACE: But how -- wait -- How can you convert from Judaism to Catholicism and yet not deny your Judaism?
|ROTH: Well, of course, I have a different theory. I believe that an Irishman's an Irishman, a Jew is a Jew, an American-Irishman, American Jew. I can't see saying that it is merely a religion, I don't go along with that. I think Christ on the Cross which I spoke to you last time was a Jew who never denied his Judaism and Christian came from the word "Follower of Christ" and so therefore that's an acceptance of the Jewish Messiah and he stated he came to fulfill the law, so I don't see where there's a denial of Judaism or... how can you deny what you are?
|WALLACE: You didn't feel the least bit disloyal when you turned from Judaism as a religion to Catholicism as a religion?
|ROTH: Well, in this way, the physical sense, the material sense, I do believe there is a time in the Bible that Christ says that "They will mock you in my name sake and that..." and it did come in the minority. People were very good about it, they didn't care how I found God as long as I had Him, but I don't think there was too much resentment. I did have feelings of guilt but I would have to rise above it and try to get into a spiritual way and to my own self be true. You know Mike, they wrote about you in the LaGorian which Father Clyber who is a Jew and a priest convert to Catholicism and he sends me the LaGorian and it's strange, a few weeks ago they had an article where you asked the Catholic Church some questions.
|WALLACE: Yes.
|ROTH: While I was reading it, I also read an article about the face... Five Faces of a Hypocryte and I thought to myself, one of the things were those that professed to be a Christian, you know, and wear the face of a hypocrite, and I thought that went along with my thinking, that if I were to take and to continue taking sacraments, at a time when I felt in the eyes of God, I didn't go along with it, I would be wearing that face of a hypocrite. And, although I'm lonely, not belonging at the moment...
|WALLACE: You... Have you forsaken Catholicism now?
|ROTH: Well I... I hope God hasn't forsaken me, that's the main point and I feel that in conscience I can look up to Him and that what is right to do, he will lead me to. One wonderful thing about the Catholics and the Catholic Church, and my own people too is that they don't desert you, you may desert them but they say you shall be back. But I think it's along the lines of wherever the good Lord wants you, that's where you'll be.
|WALLACE: You were a member of Alcoholics Anonymous?
|ROTH: Yes.
|WALLACE: Did you regard that...? -- are you still a member of AA?
|ROTH: Well I follow the principles. I believe with AA, of course I don't advise this for a newcomer, but I think just as you get well, after you come out of a hospital, I don't think that you have to sit in the hospital, come back every day; I think you use the medicines and in this case it's the suggestions and principles of AA.
|WALLACE: Did you regard...? -- Do members of AA regard it themselves as kind of a religion?
|ROTH: No, to the best of my knowledge, they believe that AA will direct people back to their own religions or give them some spiritual contact with God.
|WALLACE: Back in 1955, one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous wrote a thought provoking pamphlet in which he warned former alcoholics against, resuming what he called, quote: "our old and disastrous pursuit of personal power and prestige, public honors and money." He suggested that these are egotistical, self-seeking ephemeral things and if the alcoholic or the former alcoholic were to lose them again, that could shatter a person all over again. Now you are a fairly ambitious woman. Do you ever feel that perhaps you're pushing... pursuing the dangerous course now in going after prestige, money, public honor once again?
|ROTH: Well I'm pretty sure that when the good Lord put us on this earth, he knew that there were human footsteps to take and he certainly doesn't want us to be a ward of a state. Whatever our job is, whether we're a truck driver and go back to trucking, or a waitress go back to the waitress. Every job is important in life and mine was to go back to singing and as I said earlier, there's no glory in it. Now, these rules that you read; you see, when I joined AA there was no such thing as a rule. There were suggestions. I wasn't anonymous, I... when I was drinking, of course, and I didn't wish this type publicity but I have found the press to be fair. I've said it over and over again: it came out and they could just, as well, have gone to the morgue and dug up any story. I don't think that there is glory in saying: Look, I want a lot of gold stars; I want to be up in lights 'cause I'm a cured alcoholic. I mean, it's a little bit ridiculous, I feel that I'm now after 5 years or 12 years that I have had my sobriety, free from the bonds of sympathy. I don't feel if the public comes back three and four times or I'm asked to appear places that many times that they come back to see what an alcoholic that doesn't drink anymore looks like.
|WALLACE: Lillian in a moment I'd like to ask you about something that you write of quite movingly in your new book. You write, "All people go through life with a void inside them." You write that even love and marriage probably doesn't vanish entirely that feeling of aloneness, of lostness; you say, "The void seems to remain during life." I'd like to know why you say that. And we'll get Lillian Roth's answer in just 60 seconds.
|WALLACE: Lillian, in your book you write, "Within us, there seems to be an aching, a frightening void we are forever trying to fill but never quite do. We're always alone." What do you mean?
|ROTH: You've never felt that feeling?
|WALLACE: Uh-huh.
|ROTH: Well, with the hundreds of people, the thousands of people I've met, it's a strange empathy I guess I get and maybe at times contrary to belief, I'm subject to a slight melancholia but I look across a room at a person and somehow the way the shoulder is, a certain look in his face, the age of the face, I know that the man has lived a life that hasn't had any great joy in it but he's worked very hard. I never saw Death of a Salesman but I imagine the expression that I've seen on the pictures of that man's face, I've seen in so many faces and you want to go over and say, "Oh, I want to do something, say something to you."
|And also I feel that when two people love each other and are married, the ache of loneliness for someone that's gone that you wish could be part of this and they're not there anymore to see it, your parents or your loved ones can see all this, and also if you have your separate little problems and you don't want to put it on one another. You don't want to tell the fears. Lots of times, -- and Bert probably is watching tonight, he's in California, he hasn't been too well and it's our first time we've been apart in 12 years but you see we're not really apart -- but a lot of times does that void... he may have an ache or pain, he says, "I don't want to tell Lillian." I may have a certain worry, I think he almost made me come to New York so that I wouldn't be there to worry; but it's not just me or just Bert, it's... I don't know whether it's a longing to a return properly, Freud said: to the mother... the original birth state or to a humanity and those of the Church who are so longing to return to God, but we are surely never complete here on this earth.
|WALLACE: Are you going to...? -- Do you believe that you will find your completeness after life?
|ROTH: Oh well, I certainly hope and I feel like I'm on the verge of some discovery and I don't like to delve too much because I don't want to go back to Bloomingdale's, they'll say this gal is odd, but I know that Lecomte du Noüy you recall the book that fascinated me so, the physicist that wrote Human Destiny, he said that the odd person of today is just the normal person, you know a century from now when you have these dreams and ideals. And I think all those wonderful stars and planets that we're trying to reach so hard, we're going to sit all around them one day in the hereafter and those will be the different stages until we'll reach our final place.
|WALLACE: You mentioned Freud. Have you ever thought about analysis?
|ROTH: Well I did have a doctor, A. A. Bill who passed away... sent me to the original place to rest my little mind when I was thirty-four years old and up there they didn't believe in my particular case that there should be deep analysis. They feel that it takes about a year and a half and if you can't discover what's wrong in a year and a half, that's bad. And if it takes any longer, it's real bad. If there's nothing wrong, there will be something wrong and I don't mean to interfere with the psychoanalysis but that was Doctor Bill's advice where I was concerned.
|WALLACE: Lillian, when you add it all up, all of the tragic things that have happened to you, all of the unhappiness that rarely comes to one human being, and I ask this question perfectly seriously, have you ever or do you now ever regret the fact that you were born?
|ROTH: No, no. Look I knew my mother and I knew my father and so many wonderful people, I think it's all been worth it. I think I have a greater appreciation for life than I ever had with all my little hesitancies, a greater gratitude. I'm gradually learning more compassion and understanding and I just hope I can be. I don't intend to be or hope to be a saint but I hope I can, in some measure, repay the good that's come to me. And, I don't mean that as a Pollyanna or Little Orphan Annie glad all over, Annie Rooney, is that it? I just think that I... I think life has been very good to me and it takes those steps to give you that appreciation.
|WALLACE: Lil, what makes you happiest?
|ROTH: Well I don't think that there's any way to judge a complete happiness. I don't think there's such a thing as "happiness". I know my little dogs though, you know our two little dogs out on the coast, and I got very lonesome... Do you think I have time to...?
|WALLACE: I'm sorry we only have about fifteen seconds.
|ROTH: Oh... well I have the cutest little things about dogs. I think that we all get a great joy from the animals... one thing in the world that loves you without question.
|WALLACE: Lillian, thank you for coming and spending this half hour and I know lots of people who want to read your new book Beyond My Work.
|ROTH: Thank you, Mike.
|WALLACE: Few come back stories have been as compelling as Lillian Roth's, perhaps because it seems to be a story that has no end, no artificial happy conclusion. Miss Roth's comeback has been in the truest sense the search for her self. It has also been an inspiration for other searchers. I'll be back in a moment with a rundown on next week's guest, one of the world's youngest and most embattled diplomats from one of the world's youngest and most embattled countries.
|WALLACE: Next week we go after the story of violence in the Middle East, the threat to world peace from hostility between the Arabs and Israel. Our guest will be the Israeli Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, Abba Eban. If you're curious to know Ambassador Eban's answer to the Arab charge that Israel endangers world peace through a policy of war like expansion, and his reply to the Arab statement that his country, Israel must eventually go bankrupt, we'll go after those stories on the eve of Israel's tenth anniversary as a nation next week. Till then for Parliament, Mike Wallace. Good night.
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The Lillian Roth interview was digitized for the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center by Quinn Stewart, School of Information, University of Texas and indexed by Rebeca M. Rodriguez, in June 2007.
Project coordinated by: Steve Wilson (HRHRC), Quinn Stewart (School of Information, University of Texas) and Grete Pasch (UFM). Rich media players and software tools by GLIFOS. Hosting and technical support provided by Shane Williams, David Wilson, and the School of Information IT Lab.
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Short sellers profit by taking large short positions while creating a market environment designed to panic shareholders into selling their holdings. They have mastered the ability to create panic, which leads to the selling flow of stock required to cover their large short bets. In the rare instances where companies perform and the shorts are unable to create institutional selling, the continued institutional accumulation of shares will eventually overwhelm the shorts and create a perpetual short squeeze. As the Institutional and insider holdings approach 100% of the outstanding shares, today's suppressed stocks often become tomorrow's high flyers. I believe this will be the case for Skullcandy (NASDAQ:SKUL).
2 Quarters to Paradise
In the second quarter, as 14 of the top 15 fund holders were buying more stock or holding their positions, the professional shorts were busy selling another 25% of the company they don't own. Clearly with these shorts willing to short 78% of the float, we are looking at the potential for a historical short squeeze. The last reported institutional holdings of 21.174 million shares and the insider holdings of 10.1 million shares add up to 31,274 million shares in a company having only 26.5 million shares outstanding. There are only 5 million shares not held by institutions, and the declared short position is 11.7 million shares. With Scullcandy projected to make $0.87 in the next two quarters, I say grab your popcorn and get ready for the squeeze of a lifetime.
What Kind of Fad Has Numbers Like This?
Skullcandy is a lifestyle products company selling distinctive audio branded headphones and other smartphone accessories. Skullcandy brings color, character, and performance to what has been a monochromatic space, co-branding products with the NBA and other sporting venues.
While the shorts have made a point of dismissing the value of their brand, I suggest they check out Nike and Lululemon Athletica. Neither company designs and manufactures a product that can't be copied and reproduced; however, each company is a master at marketing their product and placing it in the correct channels to maximize revenue. Skullcandy has the same type of branding appeal and with the massive short interest, is poised for a classic short squeeze.
Net sales in the second quarter of 2012 increased 38.2% to $72.4 million from $52.4 million in the same quarter of the prior year. In the second quarter of 2012, domestic net sales increased 34.1% to $50.6 million, international net sales increased 59.9% to $16.5 million and online net sales increased 22.8% to $5.3 million. Gross profit in the second quarter of 2012 increased 33.1% to $35.7 million from $26.8 million in the same quarter of the prior year. Gross profit as a percentage of net sales, or gross margin, was 49.2% in the second quarter of 2012 compared to 51.1% in the second quarter of 2011. The decrease in gross margin is mostly due to a shift in sales mix to higher price point products with lower gross margin structures.
- Skullcandy is followed by 11 analysts. 10 of them have buy recommendations with a consensus price per share estimate of $22 and a high of $33.
- The last three years' revenue was $118 million, $160.5 million, $232.4 million, and projected revenues for 2012 are $280 million.
- Skullcandy has beaten the consensus earnings estimate in the 5 quarters they have been public.
- Earnings were $1.00 per share in 2011 and are projected between $1.15 to $1.20 in 2012. Earnings are projected at $1.43 in 2013.
"For the full year 2012, the Company is reiterating its net sales and adjusted diluted earnings per share outlook of $280-$300 million and $1.10-$1.20, respectively. The adjusted diluted earnings per share outlook excludes $0.4 million of after-tax expenses related to the Monster litigation in the first quarter and assumes an effective tax rate of approximately 36.5% and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding of approximately 28.7 million."
The PEG ratio for SKUL is 0.56.
For a great operational overview of SKUL, see here.
Previous Distorted Fads Are Now Household Names
Nike (NYSE:NKE) was a company that had a lot of skeptical shorts early on. The shorts bet heavily against Nike's ability to compete with the established sport shoe brands. Phil Knight had a vision of co-branding through top athletes and sponsored sporting events. He understood the influence these idolized athletes had among the market he was trying to reach. Today, Nike is worth $40 billion, and the shares have appreciated from $21.70 to the $97 NKE is trading at today.
Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) was a fad that was supposed to die in the dot com bubble. Who could have guessed a reverse auction on the internet could transform the travel and hotel industry? Only the people that needed to find discounts truly realized the value of Priceline. Today, Priceline is worth $37 billion, and the shares have appreciated from $54 to $756 in the last 5 years.
Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) is a sports clothing brand that specializes in yoga clothing. The shorts failed to grasp how large the yoga market would become. The upscale demographics of the yoga clothing buyer destroyed the rationale for shorting this stock. To this day, shorts are still wondering who is buying these $60 t-shirts. Lululemon has branched into selling other product lines, and has become the highly valued brand it is today.
Monster Energy (NASDAQ:MNST) has captured market share in the energy drink market. The shorts never believed Monster Drinks could compete and take market share from Red Bull. More importantly, how could any small company compete with Pepsi or Coca Cola? Monster developed a successful marketing campaign centered around sporting venues, and now all the major drink companies realize how big the energy drink market is.
A Convenient Truth
Morgan Stanley slammed the company with a downgrade from overweight to equal weight and a cut in its price target from $21 to $15. If Morgan Stanley is right in their $1.40 EPS estimate for 2013, how could they lower the price target to $15? If Skullcandy makes the $.87 cents projected in the next two quarters, Morgan Stanley can join the shorts as roadkill on the way to $40.
Disclosure: I am long SKUL, LULU. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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From: Ken McInnes <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] resolutions ?
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:11:42 +1000
G'day all,
The aim should be to make your webpages in such a way that the 'content' is
readable on all computers, on any browser, and ideally on any device, and for
the content to be as easy to use as possible.
If you want to see what your page might look like at other resolutions, then
sure you can reset the screen resolution for your computer. (You should never
have to set your screen resolution to see a webpage.)
If you want to see what your page might look like if a user changes the font
size, then you can go to the browser menu and change 'View' / 'Text size'.
If you want to see what your page might print like, then check that as well, by
having a look at your webpage using 'Print preview'. (I am surprised how many
pages are set too wide to be printed. USA uses 8-1/2 inch American Quarto width
paper, but the rest of the world uses the narrower and longer ISO A4 paper.)
If some content such as a left menu *has to have* a set width, then set that,
but let the rest of the page width be decided by the browser. Often style will
set the width better than using tables.
If you have a background image that you do not want repeated across the page,
then either make the original background image 'very' wide (say 2000pixels), or
set the background image to not repeat on the page by using style.
Don't let the 'gee-whiz' design templates overwelm the content of your websites,
after all it is the content that you want people to note, not your fashion taste.
Try using your page using only the keyboard, 'tabbing' and 'enter', and the 'up
and down', 'left and right' arrows, rather than using your mouse. Sometimes this
will show up problems with some of the fancy javascript menus, or 'flash' graphics.
Validate your pages using say the validator at <http://validator.w3.org/>
Check the accessibility of your page, using say the tester at
After all, maybe it is you that will want to access your web page in a decade or
two, when your hand dexterity has declined, and your vision has deteriorated.
Ken McInnes
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The unresisting acquiescence of the Acadians only deepens his detestation of the cupidity and religious bigotry of their spoilers.
He walked beside her while she pelted him,—unresisting, helplessly silent.
He threw open the door of their room, led her in, lifted her—unresisting—on to the bed.
Therefore, stunned by this new knowledge, he stood humble and unresisting.
She had drawn me back to her, my mind blacked out and unresisting.
My arms sunk through the unresisting mass that was turning me to ice.
Still, she told herself, she could not sit there forever, an unresisting morsel for the first meat-eater to come along.
She, he has in his arms, hears them too, but listens not in silence or unresisting.
He took her unresisting hand, drew it within his arm, and led her down the stairs.
He led her, unresisting, around to the couch at the other side of the table.


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This episode focussed on the relationship between the main character and his love interest. In a series of twists and turns, confidences and betrayals, he is taken prisoner and thrown to the lions. Lots of attention paid to the many and conflicting religions of the time.
Jack Lotus
The Last Days of Pompeii 2 of 5: Thrown To The Lions.
The ones that I enjoy hearing over and over again love it.


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3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
215.895.2725 direct
Fred House, an AMS Member, is a Professor of Physics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research interests include satellite meteorology and the Earth's energy budget. Dr. House earned the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in meteorology, in 1965 and 1962, from the University of Wisconsin, and the B.S. degree in meteorology in 1957 from the Pennsylvania State University.


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Chocolate Cake with Cashews, Berries and Whipped Cream
For a brownielike effect, bake the cake for slightly less time.
Slideshow: Beautiful Desserts
- Servings: MAKES ONE 9-BY-13-INCH CAKE
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 6 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped roasted cashews
- Whipped cream and raspberries, for serving
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°. Butter a 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan. In a medium bowl, sift the flour with 1 1/2 cups of cocoa, the baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, then the corn syrup and vanilla. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the dry ingredients and the cashews.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 25 minutes, or until just set. Let the cake cool to room temperature in the pan. Sift cocoa over the cake and cut it into squares. Serve with whipped cream and raspberries.


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"Where are they now?" With most former Montana politicians this can be a difficult question to answer. As Montana isn't usually considered a springboard to the national stage, many state politicians resign themselves to quiet private life, maybe penning the occasional newspaper column or serving on a board or two. Former Gov. Marc Racicot is an exception.
After leaving Montana, as some pundits say, in a miserable state, Racicot was shortlisted for the Attorney General's post. Surprisingly, he turned President Bush's offer down, citing "a great sacrifice associated with it [the job] in terms of time." A year later, Racicot's time was much in demand as a registered lobbyist for the Houston law firm of Bracewell & Patterson.
As a lobbyist, Racicot represented Enron, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Energy Coordinating Council and others to great effect. The Los Angeles Times reported that he lobbied Vice President Dick Cheney on behalf of the National Electric Reliability Council on the Environmental Protection Agency's attempts to force outdated plants to update their clean air equipment. The Cheney task force later recommended that the Justice Department consider dropping suits it had filed against companies for alleged environmental violations.
While still a lobbyist, Racicot was offered another prestigious post by Bush—the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). This job he took. All of this under an administration that had promised to "restore honor and dignity" to Washington.
"It's essentially having access to the heart and soul of the party's fundraising operation and then turning around and going to a congressman and saying, 'Oh, by the way Enron, who I happen to represent, is interested in X, Y and Z,'" says Bill Allison of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan government ethics watchdog. "The clout of having that is just amazing. I can't think of better lobbyist, except for maybe the President's father."
Shortly after agreeing to head up the RNC, Racicot received criticism for holding both jobs and stopped acting as a registered lobbyist for Bracewell & Patterson. But Racicot, who couldn't be reached for this story, still works for the firm, something Allison says isn't appropriate.
"Potentially, the conflict is still there," he says. "Officially, yes, he's no longer lobbying. Although presumably if one of his old clients needs to draw on him, he may not make the phone call himself but someone can call and say 'I'm Marc Racicot's partner and we are still interested in X, Y and Z." Just deciding not to represent a client directly doesn't mean that his firm doesn't have the same clout having the party chairman on its payroll."


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a significant efficiency improvement over the large universe Key-Policy ABE systems of Lewko-Waters and Lewko. Both schemes are selectively secure in the standard model under two \"q-type\" assumptions similar to ones used in prior works. Our work brings back \"program and cancel\" techniques to this problem.
We provide implementations and benchmarks of our constructions
in Charm; a programming environment for rapid prototyping of cryptographic primitives.
payment system in which all the transactions are publicly
accessible (but in an anonymous way). We downloaded the full history
of this scheme, and analyzed many statistical properties of its
associated transaction graph. In this paper we answer for the
first time a variety of interesting questions about the typical
behavior of account owners, how they acquire and how they spend
their Bitcoins, the balance of Bitcoins they keep in their
accounts, and how they move Bitcoins between their various
accounts in order to better protect their privacy. In addition, we
isolated all the large transactions in the system, and discovered
that almost all of them are closely related to a single large
transaction that took place in November 2010, even though the
associated users apparently tried to hide this fact with many
strange looking long chains and fork-merge structures in the
transaction graph.
compared to the modular exponentiation required in number-theoretic schemes. Courtois, Finiasz and Sendrier proposed the only practical code-based signature(CFS signature) [7]. It can be used to realise
many cryptographic primitives. But the signature is currently not provably secure due to the existence
of the high rate distinguisher [11]. In this paper, we make use of an alternate key-construct for the CFS
signature, and thus prove its existential unforgeability under chosen message attacks (EUF-CMA). Also,
we propose a code-based signcryption scheme and proved its security. To the best of our knowledge,
this is the first code-based, provably secure signature and signcryption scheme in literature.
Abdul-Latip et al. give a side channel attack(under the single bit leakage model) on the cipher at ISPEC 2010.Their
analysis shows that one can recover the 128-bit key of the cipher, by considering a one-bit information leakage from
the internal state after the second round, with time complexity of O(2^68) evaluations of the cipher, and data complexity
of about 2^10 chosen plaintexts.Our side channel attack improves upon the previous work of Shekh Faisal Abdul-Latip
et al. from two aspects. First, we use the Hamming weight leakage model(Suppose the Hamming weight of the lower
64 bits and the higher 64 bits of the output of the first round can be obtained without error) which is a more relaxed
leakage assumption, supported by many previously known practical results on side channel attacks, compared to the
more challenging leakage assumption that the adversary has access to the \"exact\" value of the internal state bits as
used by Shekh Faisal Abdul-Latip et al. Second, our attack has also a reduced complexity compared to that of Shekh
Faisal Abdul-Latip et al. Namely, our attack of recovering the 128-bit key of NOEKEON has a time complexity 20.1
seconds on a PC with 2.6 GHZ CPU and 8G RAM and data complexity of 99 known plaintexts; whereas, that of
Shekh Faisal Abdul-Latip et al. has time complexity of O(2^68) and needs about 2^10 chosen plaintexts.


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Popes of Chillitown (Reggae/Dub/Punk)
Ginglik naughtiest children return to their spiritual home for another night of skanktastic fun.
Captain Accident And The Disasters (Reggae/Ska)
Cardiff's best loved reggae / ska / soul performer brings his full live band to Ginglik for the first time. Expect singalongs. For fans of Sublime, Bob Marley and Toots and The Maytals.
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Jammi Lammi (Hip Hop/Reggae)
Jammi Lammi drops a rare set of reggae/hip hop mashups – get ready to boom boom shake shake the room!
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Glen and co make an appearance at WLBC playing Electro, remixes and general bangarangs. Hashtag Lad.


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Phoenix is offering a new prescription drug discount card aimed at reducing medical costs for the uninsured, while at the same time raising revenue for the city budget.
There are no fees or eligibility requirements to sign up for or use the Coast2Coast Rx Card, but users could save big on the cost of prescriptions, said Marty Dettelbach, chief marketing officer with the Florida-based Financial Marketing Concepts Inc., with whom the city is contracting to operate the program.
Dettelbach said customers generally could save 1 percent to 2 percent on some new drugs, between 15 percent and 20 percent for existing brand name drugs, and 40 percent to 65 percent on generics.
"There are a lot of generics that really get up there in terms of savings," he said.
Everyone involved benefits from the program, Dettelbach said. Participating pharmacies, which collect a dispensing fee of $5 to $10 on each prescription, agree to keep only about $3 of the fee, while giving most of the rest to Coast2Coast Rx, he said.
"The pharmacy is paying us a marketing fee to drive in business," Dettelbach said.
Phoenix receives $1 from each transaction, he said.
"The city's endorsement and credibility is really important," Dettelbach said.
Jon Brodsky, the city's spokesman for the program, said it does not cost the city any money.
"No city dollars are being expended for this program," he said.
Instead, it raises money for the city's general fund, Brodsky said.
"We won't know how much revenue until we see how many people participate," he said. "We would hope to generate tens of thousands of dollars a year from this program."
The program is not tied in with national health care reform laws passed earlier this year by the federal government, he said.
Cynthia Brown, recreation coordinator for the Pecos Community Center at 48th Street and Pecos Road in Ahwatukee Foothills, said there has been moderate interest so far in applications for the card.
"I've seen people come and pick them up," she said. "We just put them up this week."
Dettelbach said the card cannot be used in conjunction with prescription insurance. It can, however, be used by the uninsured or underinsured, by those with high prescription deductibles or whose plans may not cover some drugs, and by seniors facing the Medicare part D "donut hole," he said. It also covers many pet prescriptions.
In other areas of the country already using the program, it has saved cardholders an average of 45 percent this year on the cost of prescription drugs, Dettelbach said. The card is free and may be used at all pharmacy chains and most independent pharmacies in Phoenix and throughout the nation. It includes more than 60,000 drugs in its formulary.
"Prescription drug discounts will help ease some of the financial burden Phoenix families are facing at a time when they need it the most," said Mayor Phil Gordon.
Applications are available at most pharmacies, city of Phoenix libraries, community centers, public golf courses, senior centers and customer service counters. Residents also can print the Rx card, check their prescription prices and view the nearest participating locations at www.coast2coastrx.com. Go to the "Print Free Card" menu button, click on cities in the dropdown list, then click on Phoenix.
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Master Limited Partnerships are limited by US Code to only apply to enterprises that engage in certain businesses, mostly pertaining to the use of natural resources, such as petroleum and natural gas extraction and transportation. They combine the tax advantages of a partnership and higher dividend yields with the day to day tradability of common stocks.
MLPs consist of a general partner who manages the operations and limited partners who own the rest of the units for the partnership. Unlike corporations MLPs are not subject to double taxation.
Their stocks are called units, while their dividends are called distributions. The units are very easy to buy and sell, as they trade just like any other stock on NYSE, Nasdaq and AMEX.
MLPs mail individualized K-1 tax forms to each unitholder in late February or early March of each year that specifies the tax treatment of the prior year's payouts. A portion of their payouts can be tax-deferred, and it is subtracted from ones cost basis. When you sell your units, some of the gain that comes from certain deductions such as depreciation expense will be taxed as ordinary income. Because of MLPs specific legal structure, investors should consult with their tax advisor before investing in them.
The majority of Master Limited Partnerships engage in the transportation and storage of natural resources such as refined petroleum products and natural gas.
Thus MLPs typically enjoy toll-road business models. Thus:
- They do not take title to the commodities transported
- Are mostly indifferent to fluctuations in commodity prices because they are paid to transport not produce commodities
- They do not have significant credit risk as commodity prices balloon.
- MLP's receive a fixed fee for moving a product over a certain distance through their pipelines
Other qualities that enable these stable enterprises to keep increasing their dividends over time include:
-Long Useful Lives of their assets
-Fees are indexed to inflation, which provides an inflation hedge
-Most MLPs have a near monopoly in their area
-There is a high cost of entry and thus there is virtually no competition
There are different types risks to investing in MLPs as well, including Regulatory Risks, Interest Rate Risks and Liability Risks.
MLPs are subject to Regulatory Risks. Currently most partnerships enjoy a pass through taxation of their income to partners, which avoid double taxation of earnings. If the government were to change MLP business structure, unitholders will not be able to enjoy the high yields in the sector for long. In addition to that since the fees that MLP charge for transportation of oil and gas products through their pipelines are regulated by the governments, this could affect the revenue stream negatively.
MLPs also carry some interest rate risks. During increases in the interest rates by the FED in 1994, 1999 and 2004 the partnerships didn't produce decent returns to shareholders. Because of the ability to grow their cash flow base, MLPs could relatively outperform in a rising interest rate environment.
Liability risk -Unitholders typically have no liability, similar to a corporation's shareholders. Creditors however have the right to seek the return of distributions made to unitholders if the liability in question arose before the distribution was paid. This liability stays attached to the unitholder even after he or she sells the units.
The benchmark for Master Limited Partnerships, the Alerian MLP Index, has enjoyed above average annual total returns of 11.90% from 1995 to 2008. Part of the strong performance could be attributed to the above average distribution yields that most MLPs enjoy, coupled with strong growth in distributions. Master limited partnerships generate predictable and growing cash flows, which are somewhat immune to commodities price volatility and overall economic conditions. Despite the fact that the Alerian MLP Index lost 36.90% in 2008, the index is virtually unchanged so far in 2009.
The five MLPs with highest weights in the index include:
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) owns and operates natural gas, gasoline, and other petroleum product pipelines. Also operates coal and other dry-bulk materials terminals and provides CO2 for enhanced oil recovery projects. KMP has managed to increase annual distributions by 13.90% on average since 1993. The partnership's units currently yield 9.10%. Check out my analysis of Kinder Morgan, which is one of my best high yield stocks to own in 2009.
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) owns onshore and offshore natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and petrochemical pipelines and associated facilities. EPD has managed to increase annual distributions by 9.60% on average since 1999. The partnership's units currently yield 9.80%.
Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) owns crude oil and refined products pipelines and associated facilities, primarily in Texas, California, Oklahoma, Louisiana and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Also involved in the marketing and storage of liquefied petroleum gas. PAA has managed to increase annual distributions by 7.40% on average since 1999. The partnership's units currently yield 9.30%.
Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) owns natural gas pipelines and associated facilities. ETP also markets propane to retail customers in 40 states. ETP has managed to increase annual distributions by 13.50% on average since 1998. The partnership's units currently yield 9.90%.
Oneok Partners (OKS) owns natural gas pipelines, processing plants and associated facilities, mostly in the Mid-Continent region. OKS has managed to increase annual distributions by 4.70% on average since 1994. The partnership's units currently yield 10.20%.
As usual these MLPs are just a starting point for research and should not be taken as recommendations. Because of their unique structure, consult with a tax professional before investing in them.
Full Disclosure: Long KMR
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Peter Jackson Talks The Hobbit
And a planned ANZAC project
Oh Peter Jackson, how you tease. The New Zealand director has promised that he will have certainty about whether The Hobbit is going ahead "sometime soon" in an interview with New Zealand's Dominion Post. Yes, he's still optimistic that the legal knots can be combed out, saying that Warners was "making progress untangling the MGM situation", which can only be a good thing.
But that's not all he's planning: it sounds like his long hinted-at ANZAC project may be the next project on his plate. A huge fan of Gallipoli, Peter Weir's 1980s take on the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought in the Mediterranean in World War I, Jackson hopes to get his own take on the story of the disastrous Dardenelles campaign off the ground.
Jackson already directed a World War I short film in 2007 called Crossing The Line, presumably just to get a feel for trench warfare and the rest, but it appears that he's hoping to get an ANZAC movie going in time for the centenary of the campaign in 2015. That means he'll have to try to fit that in around a second planned Tintin movie, following the first in 2011, and The Hobbit if that comes together quickly. Annoyingly, it looks like Temeraire's still on the back burner, which is bad news for fans of Napoleon and dragons.


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Spring not only brings us daffodils and cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., but also occasionally powerful thunderstorms that can knock out power to thousands of homes and businesses.
I live in one of those northern and western suburbs of DC that tend to lose power fairly frequently.
It used to be that one of the few nice things about losing power was the sound of silence. But those days are gone. Now losing power has a new sound: the whirring of the startup of my neighbors' backup generators.
We need power not only to keep our food from spoiling and protect us from uncomfortable and even dangerous heat, but also to stay connected. As a nation, we are becoming ever more dependent on electronic devices. We cannot survive without our cell phones and computers, let alone our refrigerators and air conditioners. At the same time, climate change threatens the reliability of the grid through more intense heat waves and potentially more powerful storms.
While it's easy to say we should work to prevent disruption in electricity, how much should we invest to bolster the resilience of the grid? And who should pay?
In Maryland (as in many areas), we have collectively been underinvesting in grid upgrades and maintenance for a variety of reasons.
So individuals are taking matters into their own hands, investing thousands of dollars in backup generators to stay connected, air-conditioned and fed without interruption.
Implicitly, then, many of us who can afford to are willing to pay quite a bit for resilience. Buying a generator might insulate individuals from some of the inconveniences of power outages. But are we willing to contribute more to grid maintenance that would, in theory at least, benefit all of our neighbors as well?
A recent report to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley recommends concrete steps toward improving grid resilience, including how much we need to spend, and toward determining how the burden should be shared between ratepayers and utility investors.
A more socially conscious approach to resilience would have other benefits. These backup generators are not only noisy, but they also increase greenhouse gas emissions. (This is true on average, although the impact of specific generators depends on the mix of energy sources in that region.) These increases are small, but they take us in the wrong direction.
We need to strengthen the climate resilience of our communities to prepare for what is unavoidable, but we must also ramp up efforts to dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to avoid even more severe impacts.
Finding solutions that meet both objectives should be a high priority. And as a society, we will most likely be successful if we face these challenges, and act, together.


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The mystery comes to another "happily ever after" style ending, with the thieves safely in jail, the stolen loot returned (of course the police were able to track down all the victims of the pickpockets and return their stolen goods to them), and the DTB Cousins receiving a bonus for their efforts - tickets to Scotland where they would become involved in the Loch Ness Monster Mystery. Although we had the foresight to set up the next adventure, it never got written. After writing four books, without any of them getting published, I guess we kind of got a little discouraged. We started a few other partial stories, but this was our last complete one until The Narrows Escape. I hope you've enjoyed reading the story:
The DTB Cousins made their way over to the old mansion with Cheif Harper. On the way, Troy asked, "Where do we look for the money?"
Brad was thinking of the same thing.
"Don't worry," said Darin. "When I was tied up they said something like having money hidden somewhere in that main cavern."
"It must be all that lute that was the money they were talking about."
They opened the trapdoor and went down the steps. They came to the main cavern and everyone started searching for places where the money could be hidden.
Finally, Brad got kind of worn out and leaned against a stalagmite to rest a little. It triggered part of the rock wall to slide open and inside was a safe.
Cheif Harper took out some equiptment to open safes and in no time they had the money.
They went back to the police station and Chief Harper had his men return the money to its owners. The chief gave the DTB Cousins three free tickets to Scottland for an extra treat for solving the case and then they went home to tell their moms and dads.
A couple of days later they decided that they would use those tunnels and caves and put their private office down in there. They bought a lot of nice new equiptment to go in their office with the treasure money.
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Still hungry, though, our girl made a very early Sunday-morning trip to Miami's King of Diamonds strip club, where 200 big booties (not to mention another pot holiday pastry) was waitin' for her to "lick the icing off." As Rihanna herself would say, she "want that cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake cake."
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NORMAN, Okla. -- There was only one spot up for grabs on Oklahoma's vaunted defense when Donte Nicholson arrived on campus in the spring. Strong safety wasn't one of them.
That didn't matter much to the junior college transfer from California.
"I came in and wanted to play as soon as possible," Nicholson said. "I wanted to get out there on the field and show what I could do."
After a spring of watching the 6-foot-2, 210-pounder emerge as a dominant player, coaches had no choice but to yield to the obvious. They inserted Nicholson into the starting lineup and slid incumbent Eric Bassey over to a reserve role at cornerback.
Since then, Nicholson has earned nothing but praise for his quick adjustment to the Sooners' defensive scheme and his dazzling physical gifts. He's even gotten a little bigger -- Nicholson is probably a T-bone shy of 220 now.
"All indications in practices and scrimmages is that he's a very solid player," coach Bob Stoops said. "Donte can really have an impact for us at that position."
Nicholson has been so impressive that he's even drawn comparisons to former Sooners All-American and current Dallas Cowboy Roy Williams. Stoops calls Nicholson the most "natural" safety he's had since he's been in Norman, including Williams on that list.
"I reject that. I'm not Roy," Nicholson said, vigorously shaking his head. "There's never going to be another Roy Williams to come through here."
Maybe not. But the No. 1-ranked Sooners are eager to show off what they've found in the All-America transfer from Mount San Antonio Junior College in Walnut, Calif. He'll get his first start Saturday against North Texas.
"Donte is going to bring a physical presence and he has tremendous instincts," co-defensive coordinator Brent Venables said. "He's fit in right away. Donte's a natural out there."
Nicholson, who led his team in tackles as a freshman and sophomore, chose Oklahoma over Arizona State and quickly enrolled in school for the spring semester.
The signing of Nicholson was a coup for the Sooners, who needed depth and experience in their secondary. Still, earning a starting spot on one of the nation's formidable defensive units -- one that returned 10 starters -- figured to be tough to come by.
Bassey, at a leaner 6-1 and 197 pounds, is one of the team's fastest players and had the fourth-best season for tackles for loss in Sooners history last year. He was a solid strong safety, but probably a better fit at corner, where there's less physical demands.
Nicholson helped his cause by quickly making an impression in spring practices, applying fierce hits on any player who ventured into his area and showing an uncanny knack for always being around the ball. His highly touted teammates took notice.
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Brooks joins Hargus 'Pig' Robbins and Connie Smith who will be inducted in 'Veterans Era Artist' and 'Recording and/or Touring Musician Active Prior to 1980' categories respectively.
Garth Brooks is among the newest members of Country Music Hall, and he will be inducted in "Modern Era Artist" category. According to his wife Trisha Yearwood, the "Midnight Sun" crooner was in tears after receiving the call from people at Country Music Association about the honor a few weeks ago.
In a statement following the official announcement on Tuesday, March 6, Brooks graciously said, "I am astounded and honored to be in the Country Music Hall of Fame." He additionally noted, "At the same time, I can't help but feel guilty going in when there are so many deserving artists that came before me who are yet to be inducted."
He said his induction might be "premature" because he thought there were a long list of others who should also get the honor but hadn't. "It's kind of odd to be in this room," he explained. "You want to be mentioned in the same breath with George Strait and Reba McEntire ... those are the two heroes I grew up with."
"You feel uneasy because I wouldn't be standing here today talking to you if it wasn't for Randy Travis. I wouldn't be standing here talking to you today if it wasn't for Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Steve Wariner, these guys. ... I think eventually they will get in, but it probably should've been before Garth Brooks came in. That's the whole feeling for the day."
Brooks is joining Hargus "Pig" Robbins and Connie Smith in the class of 2012. While he's going to be inducted in the "Modern Era Artist" category, his two "classmates" will be inducted in the categories of "Veterans Era Artist" and "Recording and/or Touring Musician Active Prior to 1980" respectively.
"I just couldn't believe it the other day when Steve Moore called and informed me that I had been chosen to become one of the new members of the Country Music Hall of Fame," said Robbins. "All I could say was 'thank you, thank you, thank you!' Well, I have always considered myself lucky, and I guess my good luck has struck again. I am so honored to be named one of the new members."
In the same tone, Smith stated, "I've had the privilege of participating in several Hall of Fame inductions. They were all very special. But now to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame myself is an honor for me and my family. So touching, it's difficult to find the words to express my gratitude."
The induction of Brooks, Robbins and Smith will be conducted in a ceremony later this year at the Hall of Fame's Ford Theater in Nashville. The addition of those three country music veterans increases membership in the Hall from 115 to 118 inductees.


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In the time it's taken you to imitate another with a computer, they've moved on, written another original song. Google 'Art Replica' and find hundreds who can recreate history. There is a clear and obvious difference and a real appreciation for the original work. Why not try and make history with something different?
I disagree.. By the time an instrumental musician has got his guitar/drums set up, in tune, mic'd up, sound checked, etc. A computer musician could have already be in the mix-down stage of even a simple song.
But, I think we have digressed here. I never wanted this to be about which is better, digitally made music, or instrumentally recorded music. No one can reasonably deny that both have their individual strengths, and can do things that the other cant. So a combination of both can produce an excellent outcome.
You mentioned before that you don't think it's asking too much to have a vocalist that is note-perfect. How many of those actually exist? Honestly?
"Music for musicians is effortless. It's their vocabulary." I think those two statements contradict each other. Using the analogy of one's vocabulary, is it always easy to express what you mean? No. It's not. The same goes for musicians.
Backtracking slightly, the whole beauty of "live" or "recorded music", is that it naturally has those little perfections in it, like a slight variation in dynamics/pitch/rhythm/tempo. So, asking for a musician/vocalist to play/sing something perfectly, is asking them to be a computer.
you ever thought about to be both…. 1 person records live music, he plays on a guitar/piano or whatever and edit it on the computer further and master/render it to the best quality….......... I want to be something similar, would be amazing
take a look at this guy http://www.windwalker.co.kr/
the main song on this site is the best live recorded song I ever heard and I guess he edit it on the pc…...... whatever I think he's a guy that is both, how I told you
I can't imagine how many opportunities you have like that….. its awesome
Actually, I think I will be uploading some tracks soon that I made a little while back, with my brother playing the guitar, but processed and edited by myself.. I do think it is really a nice way of making music.
On one of the songs, I reversed certain sections of the guitar, for effect. And you simply just can't do that without computers.
Actually, I think I will be uploading some tracks soon that I made a little while back, with my brother playing the guitar, but processed and edited by myself.. I do think it is really a nice way of making music. On one of the songs, I reversed certain sections of the guitar, for effect. And you simply just can't do that without computers.
thats the cool thing… and thats why its a awesome new way… even it isn't new…... but the new ways you can create with this style are amazing
keep it up man, you've got a cool brother eh
do you saw this guy's site, his background melody?... he recorded different instruments…. I can't find a word for this music style
Yeah, I saw it man! I like it alot! I'm not sure exactly what you would call it, but I guess it could come under the Jazz umbrella.
Haha! Yeah, my bro is cool! He's really helping me with my soon-to-be-launched website too. Doing all the coding and CSS and whatnot..
yea could be a new style of jazz… but I guess it depends to nu jazz or acid jazz
cool hehe good help for you
Anyone seen this clip before? It's a routine by DJ Kentaro. Not perfect, but he really gets going about half way through. Some amazing skills. Check out how many styles he manages to throw into the set:
he's got really fast hands
djing is not really my type for making music in the future hehe but I like how he made his end
djing is not really my type for making music
No? Ok, well how about this guy? He is an excellent producer (In my opinion). Here is a clip of him recording his latest album.
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Manage your accounts from your desktop, maximize interest income and simplify reporting and account reconciliation. You can transfer funds to cover anticipated debits, draft donor accounts for pre-authorized payments, initiate ACH or wire transfers, pay bills or even pay your payroll – all with just a few clicks of your mouse.
Direct Deposit Payroll Service
Give your employees the convenience, reliability and safety of having their paychecks deposited directly into accounts they specify. We will process your computerized payroll data and deposit net pay amounts each pay period. By administering your payroll in this way, you will reduce internal costs and eliminate the need to print, prepare, sign and distribute paper checks.
Middleburg Bank has many other ways to help your non-profit get the most from your financial resources. Talk to us today to see how a committed partner can help your organization achieve its good works.