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Living and working in Costa Rica is not EASY if making money is a MUST. I can't tell you how many people we've seen come and go because dreams were CRUSHED or promises of paradise were not as advertised.
So, if you're coming down to Costa Rica in hopes of turning around your life and making money in order to support yourself, DON'T come, your chances of success are just about nil and you'll be wasting your time or at the least, spinning your wheels, barely scrapping by with NO future. That said, you can live fairly cheap here if you want to but you would have to be dedicated to the cause and hopefully have a light at the end of YOUR tunnel... I know if we didn't, we wouldn't be here right now.
Anyway, we've been very reluctant up until now to let you into our Costa Rica world, mostly because we're a little embarrassed,,, obviously we're over that now. This is our life. Hope it helps you deciding yours.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Our Apartment in La Fortuna Costa Rica
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Jenna Marbles Landshark Video Uses OUR Sloth Pic
Jenna Marble's YouTube Channel gets literally millions of HITS and I'm quite sure she makes a tidy sum in advertisement dollars... but you'd think she'd be a little bit more on her game when using pics off the Internet for her videos. Should we SUE... or be flattered? Suing is NOT our style so she's SAFE,,,for now anyway. hehe.
The pic is GREAT and I can see why she, or whoever edits her videos used it. Don't particularly care for her videos but I can see why other, younger people might- Kelly Rippa meets Chelsea Handler in a very 'Saturday Night Live-ish' kind of way. Hey, she's obviously doing something right.
I just wish she'd show some appreciation, maybe tell her subscribers, "Hey, my good friends at Travel Costa Rica Now could use your support- please subscribe to their YouTube Channel." Yeah, like that's going to happen. *So, whoever drew this needs to learn how to spell.
Anyway, just thought it was interesting, especially how we saw it- One of D'Angelo's friends on Facebook posted the video,,,he watched it and was about to click it off because he thought it was a little stupid',,,when all of a sudden, he said, "Oh no she didn't". Yeah I know, a little gay.
Anyway, here's the VIDEO, called Landshark, it's become very popular, very FAST. *the pic in question comes at 1:44. You might notice a 'blurry' girl in her pic w/ the sloth which doesn't exist on our pic above- it's called photoshop.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Rio Celeste is NOT Always BLUE
To be clear, the Rio Celeste (Tenorio National Park) area is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, but never more so than when the BLUE of the river and waterfall are poppin' and the sun is out acting as a natural contrast button on PhotoShop, intensifying the beauty 10 fold. It's stunning.
But the beauty of Rio Celeste is not what I'm talking about today. I'd like to tell you about the 'downside' that most travel books, travel agents and pushers of 'tours', don't like to tell you. Rio Marron could often be an appropriate name for Rio Celeste. *if you haven't figured it out, 'celeste' in Spanish means, 'sky blue' or 'light blue', 'marron' is brown.
In a nutshell- Depending on the amount of rain in the area, Rio Celeste is NOT always blue. Also, Rio Celeste is NOT a walk in the park, you should be somewhat in shape. Still intent on hiking Rio Celeste, when it rains a lot, it can be a nightmare to get around due to the mud- this is Costa Rica after all, trails are not normally as user friendly as you might be used to. We recommend a 4x4 to get there if you're going yourself, especially during periods of heavy rain.
Anyway, here's a video we did about the 'downside' of Rio Celeste.
And now here's some of the BEAUTY of Rio Celeste. ENjoY!
I have more INFO on Rio Celeste in this blog, such as how to get there, which should be easy to find.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Will Smith MOVIE in La Fortuna- kinda COOL
The movie is called, 'After Earth' and it stars Will Smith, son Jaden Smith and is directed by M. Night Shyamalan. But the BIGGER, BETTER news is, much of the film is being shot in La Fortuna, as well as the Sarapaqui areas of Costa Rica.... So that's kinda COOL.
No, I haven't seen Will or Jaden... and no disrespect, but don't really care about shit like that although I do respect their acting abilities. But the production crew have been all over Fortuna, especially on Sundays... so I've gotten a chance to talk to many of them and they've all been super nice. Yes, they work with big stars but to them it's just another job and they're happy as clams just to be shooting in Costa Rica, as opposed to lets say, desert-like conditions in Mexico, which they told me are a nightmare. I enjoyed talking to the 2 women who work in 'costumes' and also had been involved in M. Night's previous movie, "The Last Avatar", explaining to me why they were worried about an upcoming scene in Sarapaqui- all's I know is they said, 'female lead', 'wedding dress', 'raging river', 'keeping it white' and 'we only have 2', all in the same sentence. To me, it's interesting.
Anyway, I gotta say, whoever SCOUTED locations for this movie got extremely L-U-C-K-Y, because if they hadn't been lucky (so far that is) they definitely would have been FIRED by now. Why lucky you ask??? Choosing to shoot a HIGH budget movie, where lost shooting days lose big BUCKS, in La Fortuna, in perhaps the RAINIEST months of the year was either just plain stupid or 'someone' did NOT do their homework I'm sure it's the latter. Typically, when it's the dry season most other places in Costa Rica, it's the rainy season here in Fortuna. But guess what? Lucky for dude, this January and first two weeks of February have been uncharacteristically, freakin' BEAUTIFUL and rain has been at a minimum. I know they had some serious issues caused by the rain 1 day/night last week, but normally, they could have multiplied that one problem times 100 if it were a normal January... when it rains here, we're talking landslides. *see pic above left Like I said, dude got lucky. Not sure they'll be so lucky in Sarapaqui, where the production is headed this Thursday, but for dudes' sake, I wish him continued LUCK because he's still going to need it. I do have my doubts, after all, this is Costa Rica and weather changes as much as I assume the costumes do in the movie. My advice to 'dude' if it starts raining with no signs of stopping- and some bigwig from the movie asks him WTF was he thinking booking these locations.... best 'dude' says what we all do when there's nothing else to say, "Pura Vida".... and just keep moving.
*Need a couple consultants when shooting a BIG ASS movie in Costa Rica--- We're available.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
FCUKING up my RIBS Rappelling the VIDEO
*Canyoning is a SAFE activity. I'm the exception. The RISK is minimal to everyone else, even for 1st timers.
I don't mind getting older, really I don't, but I am sick and tired of getting hurt while performing 'mundane-like' tasks. Back in the day, I got hurt because what I was doing came with built in risk factors- riding motorcycles, playing football or just out and out fighting and roughhousing on a day-to-day basis. So to me, breaking a rib or having a black eye just came with being me. But now, OMG! I can tear a ligament reaching across the table for the friggin' butter. My Fight Club days are O-V-E-R. Now, I'd be more apt to carry a whistle...
Ahhh, the memories-
At some point in the 1990's (I'll be damned if I can remember when) I had major surgery on my cheek and eye-socket area because I got in a fight at a club in Las Vegas. Now let me tell you, it's a good yarn even though I received the fat end of a Budweiser beer bottle and $25,000 dollars worth of surgery, but at least it's entertaining for the listener... much better than this:
"Hey Mike, what's with the cast on your arm?"See the difference? And it's been going on like that for the last 8 years or so...every injury 'butter' related. How fuckin' LAME is that?
"Oh this, well, it was last Sunday at dinner when I was reaching for the butter...."
And that's how I feel about this one. So what, a little 'jar', a minor 'jerk' from stopping a little too fast... and now I can't even yawn without regretting it. I'd rather have fallen or collided with a boulder or something, anything a little more dramatic than a slight, 'jerk' on a rope. **My outside looks pretty good right? Who knew as of late my innards were being held together by twisty ties and Silly Putty?
And get this, on that tour, their were like 10 people who had approximately 10-15 years on me... AND it was their first time rappelling (on a personal note, this group was GREAT, so COOL to see older folks out trying new things and livin' life). Then there's me, who has experience, who is supposedly 'in shape', bruising my ribs- oh the humility. Obviously, I don't wish ill will on anyone but besides my rib issue, I bet you can't guess what the next worst thing was- that's right, out of 17 folks, 10 being older than myself, the next worst thing, which only happened to one person, was slight chafing on their left thigh from wet, harness rub.
My birthday is tomorrow and I've requested a cake without candles, you know, because it will pain me to much to BLOW... maybe I could get one of the old ladies from the canyoning tour to blow them out for me. geeeeeeez.
Happy Birthday to me.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Shrimp Tacos & Coconut Shrimp How to VIDEOS
We're at Villa Hermosa Guest House just outside La Fortuna Costa Rica, videotaping Scott, who today is making TWO tasty shrimp dishes. *If you're not sure who the HELL Scott is, he hosts 'Tropical Costa Rica Cooking Classes' here in La Fortuna. Anyway, it's difficult to beat this combination- Costa Rica, Villa Hermosa, beautiful weather, birds, a pool and 2 GREAT shrimp dishes. Lets get to it.
Coconut Jumbo Shrimp:
Next up- Shrimp Tacos w/grilled Papaya:
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Pure Trek Canyoning in La Fortuna a MUST DO!
Pure Trek Canyoning in La Fortuna Costa Rica is bar none, ONE of the BEST adventure tours around. Our Video Review below.
There's plenty of adventures in La Fortuna Costa Rica that probably shouldn't be missed, from Zip lines to Costa Rica Cooking Classes and Canyoning aka canyoneering, is yet another 'must do'.
We've done the Pure Trek tour a few times and there's a couple reasons we really ENjoY it. One, the owner is a 'gringa' from the United States, her name is Cynthia Crummer. Being from the U.S., Cynthia understands what us Americans want and need- to feel SAFE while participating in Xtreme adventure tours and especially while in a foreign country. With Cynthia and Pure Trek, it's definitely SAFETY FIRST.... and SECOND for that matter. From the get go it's apparent the Pure Trek guides are professional, knowledgeable and extremely safety conscious when working with inexperienced or first time rappellers. And we should know, the first time we ever rappelled was about 7 years ago with Pure Trek.
The fact Pure Trek is so safety conscious is probably one of the reasons they accept and encourage kids and families to participate in this tour. Most Xtreme tour companies are not comfortable working with kids under 14 and won't usually touch them with a 10-ft pole, not so for Pure Trek. Anyway....
...lets just cut to the VIDEO, it's good, I promise you won't be bored.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Gay but Str8 Friendly Coyaba Tropical in Manuel Antonio
Gay owned and operated, Coyaba Tropical is a GREAT gay option if you want a little more privacy combined with a family type of atmosphere. And I'm not necessarily saying, 'family' in a gay way (although that's true as well) but family because the owners, Mike and Paul treat everyone LIKE family. Really, they're one of the MAJOR draws for staying at Coyaba Tropical. Warm and friendly, always ready to lend an ear or share a story OR just assist with your travel plans, one can't help but FEEL the warm VIBE at Coyaba.
But that's not to say the Coyaba Tropical is average, far from it. Decorated with attention to detail, cool art and comfy beds that's reason enough to give the place a look see.
Anyway, CHECK OUT our video of Coyaba Tropical in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica and see for yourself.
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|Oct 4th, 2008 11:53 PM
Dear god, I could have gone for seeing one of those.
I remember this one bike safety video I saw and the "improper biking techniques" were always demonstrated by this unsuspecting (and apparently extremely stupid) dude who would bike incorrectly and get hit by a car or something. At the end of the movie, a family goes to enter a biking contest and the daughter shouts "Hey, look at that guy" and sure enough, the poor bugger's there, head wrapped in bandages, several teeth missing, and waving a bike helmet.
|May 29th, 2008 08:53 PM
|The monkey boy in the ninth pic sure looks like Donkey Kong to me
|Apr 21st, 2008 10:43 AM
My god,the producers of this shit were stoned.
Those monkey masks look creepy.
|Apr 19th, 2008 09:23 PM
I can't believe no one mentioned bike helmets!
Did bikers not have to wear them in the 60s?
Oh, and Rifftrax just added this to thier list of shorts!
|Feb 21st, 2008 02:00 PM
|All i want to know is why the monkey in the hospital is wearing a stethoscope?
|Feb 11th, 2008 10:56 PM
|Honestly, I took the whole monkey comment as a racial connotation.
|Feb 7th, 2008 06:14 PM
I preferred Bus Nut, but that was hilarious. Good job, again, Rog! ^^
and that was...scary O___O
|Feb 7th, 2008 01:19 AM
|Obscurus Lupa
|True story: There were no bicycle accidents in the entire 60's decade BECAUSE ALL THE KIDS WERE SCARED SHITLESS.
|Feb 6th, 2008 05:48 PM
|Part of the blame actually goes towards the company that made the bike that was ridden by two kids. Who the hell puts the part where the second rider stands in front of the driver? It should always be behind the driver! It's like they were brainstorming ways to get kids into accidents so they can be paid to make this film.
|Feb 5th, 2008 07:17 PM
|Disturbing, but not nearly as disturbing as Napolean Dynamite.
|Feb 5th, 2008 01:31 AM
|Badgers ate my FaCe
"Slim" Jim Beam over there had the nickname slim for a reason. He was the previous year's take on that video's franchise. Then he ated all the lunches for himself, got fat, back on the mayo, then wrecked his car so he was bummin' rides one day down in the valley when his old buddy Fshlorgel Fshlooplalopnik offers him a ride. Then him and OJ simpson walked in, slit the lizard's throat, and jesus I am out of madness.
On a related note, I think the purpose of the masks were to show the kiddies of that day and age horribly disfigured people without *really* freakin out the snowflakes. Those are crudely misshapen, they remind me of the masks the kids wear in Pink Floyd "The Wall" Just frighteningly distiurbing.
|Feb 5th, 2008 12:56 AM
|Not the gripping, tour de force that was Bus Nut, but a worthy effort nonetheless.
|Feb 4th, 2008 11:51 PM
HAHAHA @ 10:59 When Filbert gets crushed. You can even hear the blood squish out of his body! HAHAHAAHAH! Oh man. This shit is priceless! Even his eye balls bulges out.
Ahhhh ...love it. Thanks for sharing this gem.
|Feb 3rd, 2008 03:04 PM
|Feb 3rd, 2008 10:58 AM
|Hmmm, Maybe Orville had a grudge on them, so he BRAINWASHED them to be hits by cars,steamroller etc.
|Feb 2nd, 2008 08:37 PM
|Count Mek
|I was thinking the EXACT same thing Mr. Flashman! I mean, 20 SECONDS is a loooong time to react to something like imminent death.
|Feb 2nd, 2008 07:59 PM
|beggars the question why fat monkey kid didnt jump off if he could plainly see he was about to ride into the hole
|Feb 2nd, 2008 04:48 PM
|Count Mek
When I saw the picture that showed the apes I had to scroll back up the page and calm myself down before I could continue, also, they need to put a Death Count on the top left corner, ever death it goes up by one! Mwahahahahaa.
Ace find -RoGelz-!
|Feb 2nd, 2008 01:44 PM
|Spruce Moose
|Why must the narrator keep saying "Right?...right." after every death? It's unsettling!
|Feb 2nd, 2008 01:30 PM
So let me get this straight...
Your reward for biking safely is to get fat eating monkey food?
And there's a thin green line that goes through everything.
|Feb 2nd, 2008 12:34 PM
|I've seen horror movies less frightening then the contents of this movie.
|Feb 2nd, 2008 11:36 AM
|mew barios
|like anyone would care if a bunch of monkeys ended up in the hospital
|Feb 2nd, 2008 02:53 AM
The film's narrator is Edward Everett Horton, an old-time actor probably best known nowadays as the narrator of the "Fractured Fairy Tales" on The Bullwinkle Show.
The son of the director of this film had some things to say about this:
|Feb 2nd, 2008 12:50 AM
|That music sounded like it was from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
|Feb 1st, 2008 09:30 PM
|I think those masks are to scare the children into such shock that they will not wish to leave the house. No bicycle riding means no being crushed by steam rollers, which means improved safety! Huzzah!
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A Pittsburgh-area woman who appeared on television with Bill Cosby as a teenager became the latest to sue him for defamation Wednesday, claiming he defamed her after she gave an interview detailing his alleged sexual abuse in the 1980s.
Renita Hill's lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Cosby's publicist and attorneys didn't immediately return messages Thursday.
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Cedar Point has some of the world's tallest and fastest roller coasters with the steepest drops. There may be no better place to immerse yourself in your complete terror. Take comfort knowing everyone else will be screaming, too.
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I assume that they must in order to maintain their function for the cell, yet am struggling to suggest another way in which the presence of a capsule/slime layer could serve as a defence against phagocytosis? Unless the slime layer directly resists lysosomal activity after the pathogen has been recognised and engulfed?
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Remember that name.
Let me tell you a bit about him. He was this 59 year old guy who lived a lone in the home he grew up in. His parents passed away. As a batchelor in his home, it grew into a state of messiness that is common for college kids and me on busy weeks. He'd had a series of health problems, he was overweight, he'd had a couple of hip surgeries and he walked with crutches. Barry, though, wasn't one to sit alone at home. His life was as exactly full as he wanted it to be. He took a cab every day to his workplace and every Sunday, like clockwork, he took a bus to his favourite pub. He was known in his neighbourhood and respected as a man with an intellectual disability who was making it on his own.
Then on November 29 of last year, a few weeks ago, he suffered chest pains. Wanting to live and knowing what to do, he called emergency services. The operator stayed on the phone with him as he waited for the ambulance to arrive. He collapsed and the operater listened to every sound hoping to hear his door open and help arrive. Well, she did hear everything, and what she heard astonished her.
The two ambulance attendants saw this big, fat, disabled guy, living in a messy home. They stood talking about him and decided that he wasn't worth saving. So they stood there and let him die, deciding to tell everyone that he was dead when they arrived. One more cripple out of the way, one more unnecessary life done away with. One more of us gone.
The operator immediately handed in the tape. Charges and investigations ... blah, blah, blah ...
A note of fear creeps into my life. What would ambulance attendants see if they came for me. A fat, disabled guy, in an apartment full of wheelchairs, long reachers, and grab bars. What value would my life seem if it was just my body they saw - not my connections, not my routines, not my hopes and dreams.
Sometimes there seems to me to be an immense gulf between we with disabilities and thee without - sometimes disphobia seems to be such a dark and evil prejudice.
Today, I mourn Barry Baker.
I tell his story here.
I will tell 5 other people his story.
Barry will live today, here in Toronto.
I hope you will join me and bring Barry's story to others, begin a conversation of the dangers of disphobia and the need for us to be alert to the fact that those who are supposed to save us, may indeed kill us, that those who are supposed to care for us, may indeed hate us, that those who we are supposed to trust - can't be.
A Victim of Bigotry
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I heard about this before Christmas amd imediately shared the story with pretty much everyone I came across..I even forwarded the link to a couple of my managers.
I work in an organisation that workes for adults who have a learning disability and require some kind of home support...I was thankful to note that everyone I mentioned it too was as shocked and horrified as I was.
- 14 January 2009 at 07:00
I did that. I told plenty of people...
My story was similar, only it was my son who died despite my fight. Good post.
- 14 January 2009 at 08:08
- Dave Hingsburger said...
carina, if you are comfortable, could you share more information. Is there a way the internet world can support you?
- 14 January 2009 at 08:41
A truly horrific story from those who are supposed to care in our most desperate need. It angered me also that the ambulance men are to be charged with something obscure like "failing to deliver a public service". If there reported actions are true, deliberately letting him die and palnning the cover up as he lay there dying, then to my mind that should clearly be a murder charge. I see no moral difference between deliberately taking someones life and deliberately withholding your life saving skills on a whim. Had the vitim been a middle class solicitor i suspect the charges would be more serious. The scary question for me is how many other vulnerable people who didn't happen to have their phone line connected to the operator have their been.
- 14 January 2009 at 08:49
A truly horrific story from those who are supposed to care in our most desperate need. It angered me also that the ambulance men are to be charged with something obscure like "failing to deliver a public service". If there reported actions are true, deliberately letting him die and palnning the cover up as he lay there dying, then to my mind that should clearly be a murder charge. I see no moral difference between deliberately taking someones life and deliberately withholding your life saving skills on a whim. Had the vitim been a middle class solicitor i suspect the charges would be more serious. The scary question for me is how many other vulnerable people who didn't happen to have their phone line connected to the operator have their been.
- 14 January 2009 at 08:49
- Tricia said...
Truly horrifying. :(
My sister works with mentally disabled adults and I will share this with her so she can share it with her organization.
- 14 January 2009 at 09:12
I'm glad you posted about this man. I heard his story on the UK news and was horrified that such action could be taken. I am glad that the people dealing with the call dealt with it straight away instead of covering it up. I hope the so called ambulance men are dealt with appropriately.
- 14 January 2009 at 09:26
- Unknown said...
I'm horrified! I hope these people are facing the most severe of punishments! They really need to send a strong message here!
This scares me. We had (operative word HAD) an immunologist who felt that my son wasn't worth the extensive treatment we were providing him, all because of his mental disability. He didn't want to waste the valuable resource (IV IG) on someone like my son. He strongly suggested we stop the treatment. Luckily we are able to watch out for my son and make the decision to leave the care of this doctor and seek out a much better one. But what if we're not around, at a time someone such as these EMT's, has to make a decision for my son? A split second decision based on his little round face and almond shaped eyes?
Thank God that operator did the right thing and turned that tape over. Hopefully there will be some internal investigations and revamping of procedures and tons of training! And I pray for justice for Barry.
- 14 January 2009 at 10:00
That's horrible. And it's what I'm afraid of every time I need emergency medical care. Already almost happened a few times.
- 14 January 2009 at 10:56
This horrifies me as a human being, but also because I am an Emergency Medical Tech. I ride on a local ambulance and respond to 911 calls. I EMT/work at a camp for kids with learning disabilities, adhd, autism and other disabilities. That camp is one of my favorite places, and those kids are my life. I don't even know what to say. I'm sorry Barry. I wish you had been my call instead of theirs.
- 14 January 2009 at 12:24
- ntmjbmom said...
That story is horrifying.
Years ago, when my daughter who had Down Syndrome, needed a transplant..she was not allowed "on the list"..in part, due to her DS..I find that kind of prejudice and ignorance frightening..like her life was less worthy of saving than someone other child without DS.
She died.
It's unbelievable and sad to me, that this kind of ignorance can prevail in the world.
- 14 January 2009 at 13:45
This reminds me of an incident from 1975. I was at my parents house, suddenly I suffered a Gran Mal seizure. When the paramedics arrived, they made comments that I was probably suffering a bad drug trip, based on my long hair and beard, not on the information of my medic alert bracelet. After my recpvery, I was sure to contact the fire department to file a complaint against those paramedics. Paramedics are biased.
- 14 January 2009 at 15:10
- filkertom said...
Posted and passed on.
Barry died because someone who didn't know him looked at him and his digs and made a value judgment, literally about his worthiness to live. That's beyond obscene.
Not very long ago at all, I lived in comparable squalor, simply because I didn't have room to organize and store my stuff. I was injured -- thank FSM it was in a public place -- and handicapped enough that I had to move to a new (and thankfully much better) living space. But I hadn't realized how much I had been fearing being found like that, in a place like that, until I was out of it.
Sorry for going on, but my stomach is churning.
- 14 January 2009 at 16:05
As a member of another minority that paramedics have a habit of "letting" die, this distresses me to no end. I hope those paramedics get first-degree murder for this.
- 14 January 2009 at 17:37
- rickismom said...
simply terifying
- 14 January 2009 at 18:07
- Tara L. said...
This makes me absolutely sick. I have a severley disabled son who was denied pain medication in a hospital because he couldn't express how much pain he was in to anyone but me. I was by his side the whole time, and still the hospitalist and nurses denied him pain meds. Finally I called his neurologist, who then called and ripped the attending a new one. He said MOM KNOWS.
I fear for my son when he doesn't have a loving caregiver with him. I thank God for the four other neurotypical, non-disabled children I have, because they will advocate for him when I am gone. At least they had better, or I will haunt them.
I hope those EMTs are punished. Good for the operator!!!!
- 14 January 2009 at 19:40
- Jenn McWhorter said...
I'm fat. I'm disabled. And my house is a mess.
Am I next?
- 14 January 2009 at 21:32
Two questios: Where can we get more information about this and what can we do to move the community and demand justice for Barry...This is disgusting...
- 14 January 2009 at 22:01
Thank you for writing this. It was beautiful, tragic and of course, deeply disturbing. I reposted your article on my blog, if you don't mind. I will tell his story too.
- 14 January 2009 at 22:53
- little.birdy said...
I hope the operators are praised for doing their jobs as the paramedics are punished for neglecting theirs. I do not know what the procedure is for operators when the caller is no longer responding, but if they were as apathetic as the "rescuers" this incident might've gone unheralded. I can't imagine what they went through, listening in and realizing slowly that a man was dying while the people employed to save him stood mere feet away and deemed him disposable.
Carina, I read a little of your blog. I'm so sorry about your sweet boy.
- 14 January 2009 at 23:45
That is simply horrifying.
- 15 January 2009 at 05:44
- wendy said...
What a horrible and frightening story. I work with people with developmental disabilities and I can't tell you the number of times I've heard of a person being taken to hospital for a medical emergency and the first question the staff are asked is, "Is there a DNR order" as if that is just what is expected. If an 21 year old woman who didn't have physical and developmental disabilities arrived at hospital in need of emergency care I can't imagine she or her family would be asked if she was to be saved or not!
- 15 January 2009 at 06:44
well, if he'd just been on a treadmill once in a while and laid off the pub chips he might have lived to see sixty. it's horrible what they did, but it was his own fault for not taking care of himself.
- 15 January 2009 at 08:57
- lainer said...
Dave, I have always imagined that up there in the North things are better than here in the States. I am becoming more disillusioned. That these types of things continue to happen is shocking and depressing as hell.
- 15 January 2009 at 08:58
- Unknown said...
@Wendy: It's my understanding that one of the first (if not the first) questions asked in trauma is if there's a DNR order on file; if someone does try to resuscitate someone with a DNR order, it's considered a kind of assault, I believe. I'm not the nurse, my aunt is, so I may be slightly misinformed -- but I do know that it's a kind of assault.
At any rate, this is a very sad thing. Poor man.
- 15 January 2009 at 09:00
I think this reflects an even bigger problem in our society that began somewhere around the time we said everything is relative. We did away with moral absolutes. Did this free some to act on their beastly impulses rather than upon ideals and purposes greater than themselves?
Or, maybe it explains how some can draw amazingly silly moral equivalents, like say, eating chips vs. complicity akin to murder.
Maybe what is even more tragic than the death of this human being, is the death of mercy and truth.
- 15 January 2009 at 13:19
I work in supported living and am often there to support folks through medical crisis. I was thinking about how horrific this was and who our agency works with who might be at risk if the EMT's were of this ilk. That took me to how many times I have been in the ER or ICU and the physicians and nurses find out the person I'm with does not have family, has a disability and does not have a DNR; the question always goes to "Well, how's his quality of life?." I have to explain that this person has a good life, friends, pets, a job maybe. I've wondered about what would happen if the person was a recluse who chose not to participate in the community, chose to be solitary, would the medical professionals feel that life was worth saving. And why do I have to answer that question at all. In the absence of a DNR (At the behest of the patient and not anyone else!) every life is precious and worth the fight!
- 15 January 2009 at 13:22
- Scotty Don't said...
As an emergency services worker myself (firefighter/emt) I ask you not to take this as an example of how all EMTs would react to this situation. These 2 are a disgrace to the profession. I was shocked and embarrassed when I heard about it, and also mad because I knew that for the forseeable future I would have to defend my chosen profession forom those who would use this as an example to characterize all emergency services workers as uincaring monsters.
- 15 January 2009 at 14:04
- Shan said...
Ah, applied Situational Ethics...in which the Lifeboat is launched and the less valuable are left behind.
The EMTs and Barry Baker, both products of our terrifying society. As to the anonymous commenter who feels the victim brought it on himself, you're on a slippery slope there, my friend. Ever smoked? Ever travelled on a plane? Ever exceeded the posted speed limit?
- 15 January 2009 at 15:57
I couldn't believe this until I read it on a number of news sites myself. How can strangers judge someone they just saw for the first time and decide that that person's life is somehow not as worthy as their own?!
- 15 January 2009 at 17:56
- Bruce Lewis said...
As a culture, we kill people before they're born on the basis of physical disability. It's called "abortion". If we can with a clear conscience take it upon ourselves to decide whether or not a baby with Downs Syndrome is worthy of life, why should we shrink from doing the same thing to a 29 year old?
- 15 January 2009 at 18:23
- Kami said...
First of all, not all women who hear that they are carrying a child with disabilities aborts. It's not a given by any stretch of the imagination.
Second, abortion is a much more complicated issue because the life of the mother is also at stake; physically, emotionally, financially. Abortion is legal because there are so many situations where bringing a child to term are shattering.
The EMTs didn't have their lives at stake. In fact it was their *job* to take care of him. They got the call. They responded.
Who else might they not feel like saving? An ugly woman? An old man? A rich kid who didn't deserve the life he lived? Someone of an ethnicity or a religious group they don't like?
They'll have no excuses in court that will fly. It's just a matter of which laws apply to the situation. And even if they've broken no law and walk away from this, you can bet they'll be shunned and probably not work as EMTs in that town again. Who would hire them? What will their friends and families think of them, now that they see what's in their hearts? As much as I'm angry for what they did, I almost pity them.
On a final note, abortion is legal, murder is not. Whatever your beliefs regarding abortion, it doesn't follow that abortion being legal makes it legal to kill someone, right?
- 15 January 2009 at 21:52
- Kami said...
I'm sorry, that last came off as too strident. I do see what you're saying, B-Chan, but I don't think that attitudes toward Down's Syndrome and abortion have crossed over in society that much.
Or have they? I surely hope not.
- 15 January 2009 at 22:08
- Sumithra said...
It is so disgusting. I was shocked to read another cruel story where a 43 year old down syndrome patient Martin Ryan was starved to death in a hospital in Britain after he was not fed for 26 days. How much worse could these people get? When people with down syndrome and other disabilities are able to add so much of happiness and love to people around them, it is only narrow-minded maniacs like these that makes this world a cruel place to live! Their crimes are no lesser than a cold blooded murder. I hope they are punished severely.
- 16 January 2009 at 00:59
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- 16 January 2009 at 06:30
- differentdrummer said...
Simply horrifying. This isn't failure to deliver a public service - it's manslaughter, pure and simple. First responders who see themselves in this story ought to be considering a career change right quick.
(B-Chan, your attempt to hijack this thread with your moral equivalency fallacy so you can go on about your own particular cause celebre in Dave's forum is grossly inappropriate, and I beg further commenters to let your sideshow die unattended.)
- 16 January 2009 at 06:57
- Ettina said...
"Second, abortion is a much more complicated issue because the life of the mother is also at stake; physically, emotionally, financially. Abortion is legal because there are so many situations where bringing a child to term are shattering."
Filicide (killing your own child) is illegal, and it your argument would support filicide just as well as abortion. So no, abortion isn't legal because of those things, because if so then it would also be legal to kill your 5 year old. It's legal because many people don't think a fetus really counts as alive.
- 16 January 2009 at 10:44
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- 17 January 2009 at 17:15
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"Retro" is the ears of the beholder. For some, it extends to the clang and twang of electric guitars; for others, it's the primitive chirp of a computer chip: that crazy 8-bit sound. And as every genre has its revival, it would appear that the latest incarnation of retro music is moving above ground, appealing to both older listeners nostalgic for the classic games of their youth and a younger generation embracing the lo-fi spectrum of electronic music.
Case in point: Namco's Taiko Master Dondon Number Two, released for the Wii on Jan. 14, features the song "Family Don Don," composed by chiptune whiz kids YMCK. Making music since 2003, YMCK are creating quite a niche for themselves in the game market. Earlier last year the band rearranged 8-bit classics for the Nintendo DS game PiCOPiCT, whose pixellated graphics also hark back to the dawn of the home-computer game.
While YMCK are leading the pack (they were even invited to remix Ayumi Hamasaki last year), other chiptune bands are enjoying moderate success in the burgeoning 8-bit scene. For a sampler, check out Fami Mode at Star Pine's Cafe in Kichijoji, Tokyo, on Jan. 30. The largest retro-gamer music event of the year in Japan will feature live performances from bands such as Consumers and Sexy-Synthesizer, in addition to a retro gaming battle and an indoor market selling old cartridge games and other 8-bit merchandise. If you're fan, grab a Fami Mode ticket today, as they're sure to go fast.
While Namco and Nintendo provide a satisfying hit of nostalgic fun with their retro style games, for some, it's no substitute for the real thing. If you'd like to experience Japan's vintage games then you ought to head down to the 8bit cafe in Shinjuku. The bar, which often has chiptune music on the stereo, has an impressive collection of Famicom and Super Famicom games and titles like Street Fighter II, Mario Kart, Pacman, four-player Bomberman and Puyo Puyo. The popularity of this venue and new retro-style games should prove that pixel power is holding sway with both the old and new generations of gamers.


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With the first three quarters of 2011 in the books, prices for scrap today are at their highest levels in history when measured against annual averages.
The composite price for No. 1 heavy melt, No. 1 dealer bundles and shredded scrap averaged $449.75 per ton in the first nine months of this year, about 6.5 percent ahead of 2008, when the three grades averaged $422.45 for the entire 12-month period. If prices remain anywhere near current levels, 2011 will set a record for scrap value.
It has been a banner year for many in the scrap industry, with demand for scrap and its accompanying profit margins maintaining strong levels. The big question is whether those prices and margins will hold up through the rest of the year.
"It wouldnt surprise me if when the year is over were still within about $20 either way of where prices are now," a Chicago scrap dealer said this summer. "All the factors in the market point to continued strong pricing."
The average prices for secondary grades are actually higher than they were at this point in 2008 (prime grades are slightly below where they were at this point three years ago). But in September 2008 prices were on their way down in the midst of a long and deep collapse. No one anticipates such a decline this year.
A number of factors have come together to produce this potentially record-setting year for scrap sales:
Finished steel prices this year are the highest theyve been since October 2008and are much higher than they were in November 2010, the low point for all of last year. With mills charging more for their products, it has been difficult for scrap buyers to demand significantly lower prices throughout this year. As long as the ratio between steel and scrap prices is maintained, many sellers say, scrap prices should remain high. And mills are showing few signs of a willingness to lower their prices.
Overall, monthly mill capacity utilization rates have averaged around 70 percent for well over a year after spending all but six months under 70 percent between November 2008 and December 2010. However, it has been three yearssince September 2008since the rate has topped 80 percent. Is the capacity utilization rate on an upward trajectory that will finally see it surpass the psychologically important 80-percent level, or will mill productivity continue along its relative plateau and move up and down only slightly for an extended period?
In the last two months of 2010, the spread between prime and obsolete grades of scrap was at one of its lowest points in recent years. Only about $16 separated shredded scrap from the prime grades and around $45 separated heavy melt from primes. But this fall, that gap has returned to something closer to historical norms: about $40 separates shredded from prime grades and $75 separates heavy melt from the primes. Historically, strong pricing years favor prime grades more dramatically than the obsolete grades. The record-setting boom year of 2008 saw the gap reach an all-time-high annual average of about $118 per ton. And going back further, to the boom year of 2004, the spread between prime grades and obsolete material averaged $83 for the year.
One of the major factors that has helped drive prices up so far this year has been U.S. exports of scrap, particularly No. 1 heavy melt. In fact, monthly exports of this grade reached a record 879,812 tonnes in May, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Although there was a drop in the summer, overall exports of No. 1 heavy melt are running about 57 percent higher than in 2010 and are on track to top 7.7 million tonnes this year. So far in 2011 monthly shipments have averaged 644,068 tonnes, far above 470,833 tonnes in 2010, 486,667 tonnes in 2009 and 436,667 tonnes in 2008.
At one time, scrap markets would drop in July as mills reduced their buys in preparation for the annual automotive shutdown. Like clockwork, the Big Three automotive assembly plants would go on a two-week shutdown in late July. Then mills would bid the price up in August because the flow of scrap from slitters and stampers would fall precipitously. No more. This year, automotive assembly plants have tended to stagger their shutdowns. "Some automotive plants are going down," said one Detroit-area broker, "and some are working right through the summer. Everybody has a different scenario today. Its not the old days, where everybody followed right along in lockstep." As a result, summer markets have been somewhat stronger than in past years.
In recent years, price changes in the fall have dictated where the ferrous scrap market finishes the year. In 2009 and 2010, the market finished about $100 per ton higher than it had in each of the preceding years. If those trends hold true for 2011, scrap could gain another $50 or so to finish out the year. For example, in 2009 the No. 1 heavy melt market gradually recovered from its 2008 lows, finishing the year around $255 per ton, and continued to recover last year and in early 2011. Prices have been around the $415 level since June, and a 10- to 15-percent boost would put No. 1 heavy melt close to $470 by the end of the year.
Scrap prices between February and September have changed little. After hitting a year-to-date high in January, scrap has decreased in value in three monthsFebruary, May and Augustand increased in the other five. May and Augusts decreases were slight. And of those five months of increases, four of themMarch, April, July and Septemberhave essentially been sideways markets with slight gains on isolated grades. More remarkable still is that the biggest monthly change since January was a $22 drop in February.
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I got some reader requests for more Bored Money entries. Remember, this category is for stuff that I feel has a relatively low reward-to-effort ratio. This usually includes things that involve taking surveys or that involve smaller or non-guaranteed payouts, as compared to the fatter rewards like $100 signup bonuses or free iPods that I put in the Deals & Offers posts. They also tend to be things that are always available. In other words, you can save them until you're bored!
Coincidentally, I just got another e-mail from StartSampling.com. As the name suggests, you give them some of your demographic information and they match you up with manufacturers that are looking for feedback on their products. You pick what you like, and it gets sent to you free in the mail. I've gotten things from food to soap to various coupons (nothing worth over $10). I just picked up a sample of Swiffer dusters. Just stick to the "Select Samples" area and avoid everything else. The "Tryer Miles" points system is largely useless, as there is nothing to redeem them for.


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Fossils showing the evolution of Australia's mammals are forever preserved in limestone at the Riversleigh Fossil Sites in Outback Queensland. This World Heritage-listed site is located in the south-eastern section of Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park, with fossils dating back 25 million years.
See the fossils in-situ at Riversleigh D Site - the only section of the site open to the public. Walk the Riversleigh Fossil Trail to take you to the top of the limestone outcrop overlooking Riversleigh D site. Visit the Riversleigh Fossil Centre in Mount Isa to see the palaeontologists work on piecing back together the story of these mammal fossils. And explore the landscape of Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park where its sandstone formations, gorges and waterholes have been formed over millions of years.
If you wish to go further back in time, learn about the dinosaurs of Outback Queensland.


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As the demand for Oracle skills fades along with VB and as even Java loses its shine, the smart developer is looking at what will pay the bills for the next decade.
As an ITpro you have to bet your career every few years and Big Data is too obvious an opportunity to pass up. The problem being that it's not a single product that you can cross-train into, but rather a new set of methods as well as tools.
You can't handle the (Big) truth
Apparently I'm not the most valuable writer at The Reg, our wise leadership has crossed sales of adverts with click data to work that out. However, I'm too petty to tell you who is #1 because that is actionable data, since a rational response is a positive feedback loop pushing the parts of your business that make money and fixing or junking parts that don't.
Talking to Duncan Ross, who evangelises Big Data for Teradata, I discover that the first skill you need to develop is the mindset of working out what would be good to know so that you can use it. Being interesting is necessary but not sufficient.
This illustrates that like most industry buzzwords, "Big" is a cynical spin on what should more often be called "awkward". A billion rows of normalised data in a well-designed schema might be large, but it's hard to see a big pay packet coming from running an aggregate function like Average on it. To be a lucrative skill there has to be some pain that you can overcome for your patient employer.
Crossing databases can be deliciously hard and that's why I commend it to you as a skill in which to invest. Easy skills may shine brightly for a while, but market forces (people reading this article and job ads) will drag your price down. This is far more than getting Oracle to coexist with SQL Server using toolsets like DTS, because increasingly a large percentage of your most useful data is in clouds - like BlackLine for accounts or Salesforce for (surprise) sales which can use SQL, as does your in-house HR DB. Be clear that they are each different flavours of SQL, with entities not in any kind of mutually consistent form. Also note that inter-cloud interoperability is still at a laughably primitive stage, so that's your opening. Part of the joy of integration is that the set multiplies with each system you add to the mix - meaning there is lots of work to be done for which they will pay you.
We've been crossing databases together for decades, often with extra indexes, or massive slow batch imports of data followed by an equally slow (and often less than reliable) batch download. That's not only clunky, but is rapidly going downhill as a career option and because it's just you and me here, we can be honest about this.
YOU know how the Fat Controller (yes, it's called that at one bank) sucks in data and no one else does, not well enough that they'd ever dare lose you. That's good until the day that some jerk whispers "Hadoop" into the ear of your CIO. Then what you have are non-portable skills that can only be used in one firm which is phasing them out. This is so bad that you must be that jerk. It's better to be leading the charge than be ridden over and even if the project goes titsup, Hadoop is a pretty good word to have on your CV.
Hadoop's open-sourciness and use of commodity hardware is both good and bad for your CV upgrade because this means the barrier to entry is a bit lower than it would be if learning the skill required access to a huge pile of expensive hardware and software. This means the clock has already started ticking quietly while the other seven million people who read this article pile in... Nevertheless, the value of this information won't degrade anything like as fast as your expertise in proprietary system. As IT Pros we're always walking up the down escalator, but it's best to pick one that's moving slower and has fewer people in the way.


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Poor People's Movements
Review of Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. (1977; New York: Vintage Books, 1979). From Rural Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 1 (1980), pp. 171-173.
In times of societal quiescence, analysts of social movements are drawn toward structural and away from voluntaristic theories of social change. The perspective of the 1970's has offered an opportunity for Piven and Cloward to reflect upon the relatively rare occasions when lower classes and the poor mobilize, agitate, organize, and win reforms. In this book they present a theory of the institutional structures that limit the emergence, forms, extent, and success of social movements among segments of the working class in the United States; a strategy for organizing in periods of massive unrest; and four case studies intended to illustrate and confirm their arguments. This is a bold and important work, worthy of careful attention by all who study social movements and community organization.
The authors consider the analysis in the first chapter on "the structure of protest" to be their main contribution. Although they draw upon frustration-aggression and relative deprivation approaches to understanding and explaining social movements, their most significant achievement is their insistence upon the crucial role of structural crises in social and economic institutions in giving birth to social movements. Most of the time, despite inequality and oppression, the lower classes do not mobilize or are ignored or suppressed if they do. The authors argue that only under exceptional circumstances involving a sequence or a combination of structural dislocations can the poor mobilize successfully for their class interests. Further, the impact of institutional disruptions created by the mobilization of the lower classes is mediated by the political system, and only under conditions of severe electoral instability are reforms favoring the poor achievable.
Much of the viability of Piven and Cloward's argument on organizing strategy thus depends on the sophistication of their analysis of the political system. They have scanned the neo-Marxian literature on the role of the state in advanced capitalist countries, but have drawn from it less than they imagine. Much of this recent neo-Marxian analysis centers on the relative autonomy of state institutions from the direct intervention of economic elites. In contrast, Piven and Cloward argue that those who control economic and political institutions are drawn together over time into one ruling class. In times of normalcy, political institutions are assumed to act as the instruments of economic elites. Only in times of social upheaval and rapid institutional change do segments of the ruling class develop different interests and divide among themselves. At such points, the authors' argument runs, shifting electoral alliances and the interest in remaining in office lead political elites to offer to the lower classes reforms that may be opposed by economic elites. Segments of the economic elites, however, soon learn to live with these reforms and even turn them to their advantage.
From this analysis of state activity, which I consider inadequate, Piven and Cloward derive a strategy for organizing within social movements of the lower clases. They argue that political elites completely determine the response to disruptions caused by the lower classes; the demands and programs put forth by the formal organizations of the poor are of little consequence. In addition, the organizers and leaders of formal organizations typically act in ways that curb or blunt the disruption that lower class mobilization can create, and they are eventually co-opted. Finally, the imperatives of maintaining mass-membership organizations lead to those inevitable conservative tendencies that Michels described as the "iron law of oligarchy." The authors conclude that the only fruitful strategy for the lower classes is to escalate disruptive protest when possible by "pushing turbulence to its outer limits" (p. 91). This can best be accomplished by a national network of cadre organizations capable of coordinating mass mobilizations and mass confrontations, rather than by formal, bureaucratically structured, mass-membership organizations.
To illustrate their structural analysis of the emergence of social movements and their organizational strategy, Piven and Cloward turn to the decades of the 1930's and the 1960's, retracing some of the ground covered in their 1971 study, Regulating the Poor. They analyze two social movements from each decade, the unemployed workers and the industrial union movements of the 1930's, and the civil rights and welfare rights movements of the 1960's. Although the analysis of the economic, social, and political crises underlying these periods is excellent, the discussion of organizational strategy suffers from the author's reading back into earlier movements the conclusions reached from their close association with the National Welfare Rights Organization. In each of the case studies, rural components of the social movements are mentioned, but the emphasis is placed on urban areas.
Distinguishing between the social movements and their social movement organizations, the authors make their best case that few lasting accomplishments were achieved by the formal organizations of unemployed workers and welfare recipients. It is a credit to the authors that the richness of the histories they present is sufficient to undercut their arguments on organizational strategy in the cases of the industrial union and civil rights movements. Contrary to a key assertion of the authors, economic elites were compelled to concede resources that could sustain oppositional organizations over time in the case of industrial unions. The civil rights movements and its organizations encompassed more than the working class; here more attention to a resource mobilization approach would lead away from Piven and Cloward's pessimistic conclusions on formal organizations. By dealing only with the decades of turbulence, the authors' miss the importance of bureaucratic organizations during years of quiescence in consolidating, defending, and even expanding the gains made in times of turmoil.
In an interesting new introduction to this paperback edition, Piven and Cloward respond to critics and emphasize that the victories achieved by the four social movements they study were real and significant; they attribute the gains to the disruptive impact of the broader movements, not the formal organizations. Movements thus leave a "residue of reform" (p. 34) as turbulence recedes. This is an unusual variety of reformism from authors who situate themselves within the Left. It combines a thoughtful anarchist critique of bureaucratic organization with an oversimplified view of the state as the instrument of economic elites. The argument is so well presented that those who would pursue long-range goals for structural change with formal organizations are challenged to present an alternative interpretation of working class movements and strategies.


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Mikele wrote:Check it out yourself on FS fb page. Apparently he's working on:
- a PONO high quality remastered version of first Survivor album;
- a youtube special on the making of the song 'eye of the tiger' with interviews with the people who actually were there making history (note: including Jim?).
Mikele wrote:PONO is the high quality music platform that Neil Young is managing.
RockInDetroit wrote:This looks to me like Frankie has no trust in Dave. It makes it appear like Dave is only there so Frankie can say he is not the only original member. Having Dave adds credibility, but having some 20 year old come on board to sing half the tunes does not. I don't know maybe Dave has indicated he is not comfortable singing the Jamison songs.
Mikele wrote:Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
I guess the 2-singers approach was a success and DB felt more confident with Jimi on his side. Jimi was getting most of the attention and I think the same will happen with CB as he's so young
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FX's New Animated Comedy Series Gets Off to a Hot Start
FX's Highest-Rated Comedy Premiere Among Adults 18-34
Commercial Television Premiere of The Simpsons Movie Provides Outstanding Lead
Combination of The Simpsons Movie and Archer Drive FX to Basic Cable's Top Spot in Adults 18-49, Men 18-49 and Men 18-34 for Thursday Prime
LOS ANGELES, January 15, 2010 - The series premiere of FX's critically acclaimed animated comedy Archer got off to a sterling start on Thursday night (10 PM) delivering 1.8 million total viewers and 1.2 million Adults 18-49. Archer ranks as FX's highest rated comedy series premiere in delivery of Adults 18-34 (786,000) surpassing Lucky (771,000, 4/03).
An encore presentation of Archer's pilot episode (10:30 PM), which received a preview airing last fall, held up strong with 1.4 million total viewers and 955,000 Adults 18-49.
"The numbers for Archer are very encouraging and it is nice to see it off to such a good start," said John Landgraf, President and General Manager, FX Networks. "With the stunning growth of Sunny's fifth season and The League's successful first season, our ambitious comedy expansion is moving full steam ahead."
Thursday was the actual 20th Anniversary of The Simpsons premiere on FOX, and last night's commercial television premiere of The Simpsons Movie on FX provided an outstanding lead-in for Archer. The movie (8-10 PM) delivered 2.3 million total viewers and 1.45 million Adults 18-49.
For the night (8-11 PM), the combination of The Simpsons Movie and Archer propelled FX to basic cable's top network in delivery of Adults 18-49 (1.26 million), Men 18-49 (776,000) and Men 18-34 (485,000). The Simpsons Movie and Archer ranked #1 (675,000) and #2 (668,000) respectively in Men 25-54 among all basic cable programs. In Adults 18-49 The Simpsons Movie ranked #3 and Archer ranked #6, and #2 and #4 respectively among Adults 18-34. In the 10:00-11:00 PM time period, the two episodes of Archer topped The Jay Leno Show in Adults 18-34 (685,000 vs. 666,000) and Men 18-34 (436,000 vs. 364,000).
FX will air new episodes of Archer on Thursdays at 10 PM ET/PT followed by a repeat of a previous Archer episode at 10:30 PM ET/PT. On February 25, in lieu of a new episode of Archer, FX will run a four-episode Archer marathon from 10-midnight.
In next week's episode (January 21, 10 PM), "Diversity Hire," a new field agent, "Conrad Stern," makes an impressive splash at ISIS, but Archer and Lana suspect there may be something all too perfect about their new diversity hire. "Training Day" follows at 10:30 PM.
Next Thursday from 8-10 PM ET/PT leading into week two of Archer, FX will air the commercial television premiere of the box-office smash comedy Superbad, starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader and Seth Rogen.
The premiere ratings for Archer surpass the premiere of the network's other two comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League. Below are premiere ratings for all comedy series on FX since 2000 (numbers in 000s).
Archer (1/10) 1,176 786 514 1,824
The League (10/09) 779 609 478 994
Testees (10/08) 700 559 361 976
Sunny (8/05) 925 473 252 1,418
Starved (8/05) 974 580 279 1,542
Lucky (4/03) 1,732 771 531 2,500
Son of the Beach (3/00) 1,018 502 354 1,482
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as suave master spy "Sterling Archer," whose less-than-masculine code name is "Duchess"; Jessica Walter as his domineering mother and boss, "Malory Archer"; Aisha Tyler as his ex-girlfriend and current co-worker, "Agent Lana Kane"; George Coe as his aging-but-loyal butler, "Woodhouse"; Chris Parnell as ISIS comptroller and Lana's new love interest, "Cyril Figgis"; Judy Greer as Malory's lovesick secretary, "Cheryl"; and Amber Nash as "Pam," the director of human resources for ISIS.
Archer was created by Adam Reed and Floyd County Productions and is executive produced by Reed and Matthew Thompson. The show is produced by FX Productions.
Archer was one of three comedy pilots shot by FX in 2009 that received series orders, along with The League and Louie (premieres in April), in the network's commitment to expand its original comedy roster. FX's acclaimed hit series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for a sixth season this summer. The League also returns this summer with an increased order of 13 episodes for its second season.


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