Multiple Sclerosis Blog

Go to the MSBPodcast wiki intead.

2009-06-09T15:02:00.007-04:00

Enough of this mollycoddling... :-)

I'm stopping all further blog and podcast posting and directing you to go to the MSBPodcast wiki instead.

Click here for my new wiki site.

And spammers, forget it. You still have to go through comment moderation and I'm not about to let you mar my site.

msb-0362 Arrgh I'm a pirate (Its legal)

2009-06-08T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0362 Arrgh I'm a pirate (Its legal)

YouTube videos

Advance Patrol - "Blågula färger"
..

Advance Patrol - Soy De La Calle
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Yo know I'm sick of the record industry getting in the way of the artists.

I stumbled upon "Advance Patrol" while reading a screed about how the RIAA and its various European equivalents had tried to advance their trial against "The Pirate Bay" by claiming that artists were getting ripped off.

And they were, by the **AAs.

"Advance Patrol" hadn't heard a word of the **AA's law suit until it was happening and "didn't want any part of this."

They want to to get their music to be heard.

It does nothing for their appearances and live shows to have the music locked up in the vaults of the record company's lawyers.

To quote the site: [ http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/english-press-release-advance-patrol/ ]

"We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case," Gonza from Advance Patrol explains, "they used us as scapegoats in a fight in which we don’t wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans.

"You cannot legislate away file sharing," Gonza says. "Those who fileshares our music are also those who appreciate it the most. They are my friends, and friendship is something to be valued highly. That’s why we’re giving away El Futuro to the internet, to our friends."

---- "El Futuro" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Mi Gerla" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Soy De La Calle" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Thesis:"

The music this time is torn from the headlines.

Uh, what headlines?

There's no more newspapers worth mentioning and the ones that are left didn't have that on the front page.

Its another way we've got to get used to this new media, this incredibly affordable new media, this responsive, inclusive, cheap to produce and distribute new media...

This tripe is course is coming from the same oligopolies that think that they control everything and want you to more and more for less and less. (You start out with something interesting but expensive and end up with a mirror being held to your face and you're on "The Biggest Loser" because you are the biggest loser.)

Their days are coming to an end simply because we're out of money.

They won.

Its all theirs.

Now screw off and leave us alone.

---- "Mi Vida" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Synthesis:"

I have noticed a lot of things in my fifty five years on this planet.

The most disturbing one I have seen is the perversion of the rule of law by every tin-pot dictator who thought that he was getting away with it and doesn't give a crap about what is left after he's gone. (I use the male personal pronoun advisedly. Only a man, or an extremely grasping woman, can be that pig-headed, short-sighted and stupid.)

I refer to the clinically paranoid Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Ze Dong, Robert Mugabe Kim Il Sung (who was named 'Eternal President" after he died,) and his son Kim Jong Il and every other sump for the people's money and energies

Now the pathetic pattern is being repeated here, not by our elected officials but by the captains of industry and the lawyers who are in collusion with them.

The music industry, which is the least productive and the most malignant force on earth, and which has been Hell bent on stamping out every innovation in sound reproduction since the invention of the player piano, is at it again, suing people for things that aren't infractions and corralling artists against their wills or by keeping them in the dark.

But we now have a weapon which they can't dismantle because they need it even more than we do, the internet.

We are able to fly in under the radar of the oligopolists and wrestle our freedoms out from the very people who would shut us down using the technology that they themselves depend on.

---- "Eres Mia" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Conclusion:

I think that its about time we stopped having to pay a bunch of non musical lawyers for every piece of entertainment that reaches our ears, wether we want to hear the crap or not.

I think its about time we stopped paying for lawyers who try to make time stand still and to stop the tide from ebbing and flowing.

I'm all for the rule of law but I'm not for its abuse.

All laws should come with a sunset clause of 25 years, after which time they are either renewed or they are struck from the books and no corporation, of any kind, should be allowed own copyrights, of any kind.

Disney will survive and GM will not.

And we're ending off with one last number in Spanish by a group that's fundamentally Scandinavian.

Only in Europe could you get this kind of multi-cultural personal enterprise...

The videos at the front of this episode are definitely in Scandinavian. Advance Warning are a hip-hop band from Malmö, Sweden.)

Click on the image, go and grab the torrent and don't worry 'bout it.

Its a tool and you're doing nothing illegal, regardless of how you piss-off the RIAA, ASCAP/BMI and the alphabet soup of leeches on music out there.

And because YOU are in control, you ARE in control and you don't even have to do it.

---- "Perdoname" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"El Futuro"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Gerla"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Soy De La Calle"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/ album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Vida"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Eres Mia"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Perdoname"
by: Advance Patrol"
http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0361 We don't call them Reds now, do we?

2009-06-03T01:00:00.002-04:00

msb-0361 We don't call them Reds now, do we?

YouTube videos

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The music this time is all coming to you from Siberia courtesy of "Ozone's Layer" which happens to be the English for the band's name: "Ozonovly Sloy."

Its 1:59 in the morning.

I've got insomnia, (or maybe I am getting back to my old "four hours a night" sleeping habits,) and right now I'm listening to podcasts of neuropod. [ http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod/index.html ]

I'm a bit obsessive. (My wife just said: "A bit? A BIT? You're a freakin' lunatic! Turn off the light, come to bed and get off the freakin' computer!" Yes dear... I'll just finish this paragraph, put my headphones on, and I'll just close the door shall I?[A nice way of saying: "I'm not"])

You can get NeuroPod from the iTunes Music Store by clicking on the image right now and I'll take you right to it.. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=293009177 ]

I find myself fascinated by the brain and its functions.

Specifically these days I'm fascinated by the role of glial cells (More on this later in the podcast.)

I also listen to the Neurology® podcast from the American Academy of Neurology but that one is a bit tougher.

---- "ZVONI... /Call Me.../" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Thesis:"

The music is the Russian again, just because. I play a lot of it because I like listening to it.

I'm going to tell you about things that live in our heads other than the neurons.

In fact they seem to be the same as the traces in electronic circuits.

Everybody's caught up in the number of transistors and resistors and capacitors as indicative of the power of computers, but if its wasn't for the lowly traces between the so called active components in the circuits, you'd have nothing but a pile of dirty sand instead of a working computer.

Here now are the seven types of less sexy non-neuronal glial cells that make up more of our human brains than do the neurons.

My source for this episode is primarily Wikipedia and its references. (And Google of course. [As we often say 'round the house here: "Google knows all" {Its just that its a total dick about only being a purely "reactive" source of information.}}])

---- "BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Synthesis:"

In this episode, I am making up for my own ignorance of the inside of my own head.

As it turn out, the inside of my head is made up of a lot more interesting stuff than just undifferentiated gray goo.

Then again, the universe is made up of a lot more than just the the stars we see in the night sky.

I'm going to go from the largest cells by sheer mass to the smallest ones, out on the periphery.

First are cells that grow the fatty sheath called myelin. Those are called Oligodendrocytes and they make up about 75% of the mass.

Then come cell that anchor to their blood supply, regulate the chemical environment in the brain, build the "blood-brain" barrier, have their own chemical transmission system using calcium and IP3 (Inositol trisphosphate)Those cells are called Astrocytes and they make up about 17% of the mass.

Then come MIcroglia which make up about 6.5% of the mass that's between our ears, being broken down into:
• Ependymal cells which secrete cerebrospinal fluid,
• Radial glia which serve as a scaffold on new neurons migrate,
• Schwann cells which are another kind of cell which are responsible for generating myelin
• Sattelite cells which surround neurons in sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia.
• Enteric glial cells (which are found in our digestive system.)

Actual neuronal cells make up about 10% of the gray goo that's between my ears (and elsewhere as it turns out. [Who knew that my stomach contains its own brain.])

---- "COLD WAR" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Conclusion:"

Our brains are absolutely fascinating organs and the complexity of the neuronal circuitry, and the effects that arise from the complexity of the interconnection of all of the cells are extremely interesting since it results in the emergence of... us.

I take very great exception to the view of he dendrites and axons are the be-all and end-all of neuroscience.

The various sources I have examined over the years divide the brain into neurons and glial cells and hold that glial cells are nothing but the servants of the neurons.

Bullshit..

I want to clarify that MS is NOT a disease of of the brain.

Its a disease of the immune system which attacks the myelin sheath (which we just saw is produced by two glial cells, the oligodendrocytes and the Schwann cells.)

---- "ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"ZVONI... /Call Me.../"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"COLD WAR"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/"
by: "ozonoviy sloy"
http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0360 Making enem, uh, friends across the world.

2009-06-01T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0360 Making enem, uh, friends across the world.

Theme Song to Alfred Hitchcock Presents
..

YouTube Theme Song to Mister Roger's Neighborhood:
..

Theme Song to The Peanuts (Linus and Lucy)
..

Theme Song to The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
..

Theme Song to Mission: Impossible
..

Theme Song to The Twilight Zone
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The video's this time are all from the golden age of TV.

Of course this starts with Alfred Hittchcock and ends in "The Twilight Zone" but that's because I've had an extremely wyrd weekend.

The kind of weekend that serve as the foundation for books, of applied psychology.

But to keep my sense of humor I'm listening to the podcast of "A Prarie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon"

Podcasts have really gone in different directions since I got into them in February of 2006.

I'm NOT complaining.

All these heavy hitters are just legitimizing what I knew in my gut years ago.

---- "Breaking my heart" by: "Marie Crehan" http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Blackheart Blues" by: "Melissa Forbes" http://www.melissaforbes.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues" by: "Plastic Soul Band" http://plasticsoul.jp/

"Thesis:"

Here I go again boring my listeners with talk about the new media but you're my sounding board and you keep me grounded. (I "hear" your comments when I get too far off the beam. Some of you are definitely not shy about telling me I'm quote, "Full of it" unquote.

The last show left people with the impression that I didn't think much of the MS International Federation, or at least of their advertising agency.

I DO think highly of them and that's why I don't want to see thing running afoul.

---- "My Heart" by: "flattstreet" http://www.flattstreet.ca/

"Synthesis:"

Peer Baneke of the MSIF replied to me.

HE wants to see things running smoothy as well.

There is a common bond between our two global organizations. Apart from the obvious, I mean.

His is trying to bring some global coordination to the admittedly medical and non-commercial endeavors of the local MS societies all over the world,

Mine is dedicated to bringing something entirely different to my world-wide internet audience, namely a sense of normalcy for us all, hearing about the therapies, goods and services and products that could improve our day-to-day lives.

We will be continuing our conversations because we have much to offer each other.

It turned out, it wasn't an agency. Its actually being done in-house by someone who's not in the media industry.

---- "Kind Hearted Woman" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/

"Conclusion:"

So I went from a rant over ineffective communications to a collaboration.

Let be a lesson to me.

---- "Crippled Heart Blues" by: "Lana Martino-Smith" http://www.lanamartinosmith.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Breaking my heart"
by: "Marie Crehan"
http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Blackheart Blues"
by: "Melissa Forbes"
http://www.melissaforbes.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues"
by: "Plastic Soul Band"
http://plasticsoul.jp/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"My Heart"
by: "flattstreet"
http://www.flattstreet.ca/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Kind Hearted Woman"
by: "Johnny Nicholas"
http://topcatrecords.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Crippled Heart Blues"
by: "Lana Martino-Smith"
http://www.lanamartinosmith.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0359 Beautiful Day

2009-05-28T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0359 Beautiful Day

YouTube Beautiful Day:
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Today is the first World MS Day.

I discovered that in an email in my inbox today.

What the hell kind of event promotion is this?

By the time "anybody" could find out, the day's over...

I know for next year but ... jeesh.

How the hell do they get any participation?

People are just discovering this too, as I can tell by the low number of subscribers on twitter.

More on this later in the episode. Suffice ti to say that that execrable campaign is why this episode is 24 hours late.

I threw away the episode I had prepared, flung it at the freakin' wall, and created this episode instead.

---- "Marian Records First Podcast" by: "Various Artists" http://www.marianrecords.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "First Run" by: "Jon Schmidt" http://jonschmidt.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "First Date" by: "Danko Jones" http://www.dankojones.com/

"Thesis:"

I love finding out about things on the very day that they're happening.

What is this?

Planing to fail by failing to plan?

The FIRST thing you learn about promoting an event is to get the word out in time for people to react.

This was the equivalent to getting a reprieve from the governor half a day after the feakin' lever's been pulled.

And twenty seconds on the news after the event has happened earlier that day is definitely NOT it.

For event promotion, the news is,not the right name for it, its the "olds"

That, at best, is PR and that serves to build a brand, not to advertise an event.

---- "First Contact" by: "Specimen 37" http://www.specimen37.com/

"Synthesis:"

I am going to read you a tweet from someone who thought it referred to something else:

"thought that http://www.worldmsday.org was an anti-microsoft day, after looking at some tweets. Need a rest :/"

Microsoft. MS. Get it?

That's some truly execrable promotion.

That tells me that this World MS Day promotion was probably thought of by somebody who doesn't know squat about marketing and certainly doesn't know diddly about how to host a event promotion.

Actually it was probably thought up by some intern who's working the "Charity Desk" at some advertising firm.

They only ever checked if the kid was screwing up, but they never checked if the kid was doing what was required and necessary.

Okay, I'm here to prevent this from ever happening to the next media event.

Lets get at least one term out of the way so we can all be on the same page.

In this case, its page 758 of "Advertising and Promotion" by George E Belch and Michael A. Belch, ISBN: 978-0-07-310126-2 [ http://www.amazon.com/Advertising-Promotion-Integrated-Communications-Perspective/dp/0073255963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1243458632&sr=8-1 ]

I know its expensive, like $135, but a professional should know what's in it.

Promotion is the "coordination" of all 'seller-initiated' efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or to promote an idea.

The Multiple Sclerosis International Federation and its member MS societies for any individual, group and organisation involved in the global MS movement, are selling the idea of an event called.""World MS Day,

One of the best blog posts about promotion of an event, as opposed to event promotion, is by Stephanie Booth [ http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/14/5-lessons-in-promoting-events-using-social-media-back-to-basics/ ]

Go and read her blog entry. You'll see what a half-hearted, half-assed effort this was.

Basically, it says, in French, with lots of English translation later on in the blog entry for the intellectually challenged, that promoting these events takes TIME and EFFORT.

What you get from this absolutely "half-past-too-late" effort is an expensive waste of your charity donations.

There are lots of ways for promoting your global efforts, and they did employ some of them, after a fashion and way too late.

The overall effort in coordinating the efforts of people, firms, government agencies and NGOs and the work in meshing the various media, broadcast, meaning the national media, the local outlets, television, radio, newspapers and other print media, and the labors in getting coverage from the internet media, using sites like Hufffington Post, or Digg.com, or by recruiting blogs, podcasts, video podcasts and the like was utterly PATHETIC.

Its MS people.

Do a friggin' google search for "Multiple Sclerosis Blog" and get in touch with the people about a campaign you want to run.

Don't wait until the day of the friggin' event and expect people to suddenly rise magically up to help you, like Aristotle who thought that bugs arose spontaneously from mud.

It doesn't work that way people. This is real life.

I've already been smacked in the friggin' face by a heavy shovel called MS.

Don't throw dirt in my face, using your own ignorance and ineptitude to add insult to injury.

---- "The First" by: "LOB Tech Tones" http://www.lobtechtones.com/

"Conclusion:"

The MS society here in the 'States and the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation get a big FAIL on promoting the World MS Day.

Lets hope they get their act together next year because they obviously didn't do that this year.

This freaking' mess, well, it stunk.

I rate the effort as worse than amateurish, worse than dilettante-ish, worse that ignorant and uninformed.

I rate it as a waste of good money and there ain't none us got money to waste.

---- "first and last" by: "theStark" http://thestark.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

Marian Records First Podcast"
by: "Various Artists"
http://www.marianrecords.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Run"
by: "Jon Schmidt"
http://jonschmidt.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Date"
by: "Danko Jones"
http://www.dankojones.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"First Contact"
by: "Specimen 37"
http://www.specimen37.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The First"
by: "LOB Tech Tones"
http://www.lobtechtones.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"first and last"
by: "theStark"
http://thestark.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0358 What's Happening?

2009-05-25T01:00:00.001-04:00

msb-0358 What's Happening?

YouTube The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I love these videos like the one that accompanies this episode.

Its about the Hubble Deep Field Camera.

Talk about taking the long view.

I could have run with another which was about taking the odds of something bad happening, and odds are if you're listening to this you'd already beaten the odds and know full well crap happens and know it happened to you.

Its about theory of risk assessment that was never applied under the last administration.

We all know what that led to:
• global economic melt down,
• rancor at undeserved bonuses that equal the combined GPD of several small backward nations, like Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, and the like,
• a deep recession that seems to be depression, I lost my job and that's enough to depress anybody, and punctuated by perfidy, (or do you like being screwed by Bernie Madoff and sociopaths of that ilk?)
• global terrorism from a small band of suicidal/homicidal psychopaths, one of which is still occasionally taking up broadcasting space and time, and some angry shit from "Al Queda" too.

---- "Happenstance' by: "Torley on Piano" http://torley.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Happening Again" by: "Roche Limit" http://www.rochelimit.ca/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could be for us too.

---- "I Never Thought it Could Happen" by: "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

"Thesis:"

This episode starts with a question: "What's Happening?"

I think we all could/should/would ask he question far more assertively, given how slowly things really happen.

The pace is part of the problem, of course.

Once an episode or exacerbation is past, the human instinct is to blot the surreality of the temporary sensation, or the loss of sensation that was brought to our attention, or loss of control, tremor or spasticity.

---- "Things Happen Fast" by: "Fuzzy Logic" http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44

"Synthesis:"

Human memory is very selective, or let me restate that another way, human recall of memory is very selective.

We may be able to recall the smooth complexion and freckled face of the red haired young doctor-to-be who admitted us to the hospital all those years ago, but we don't let the thought intrude upon every waking moment of our lives after that incident.

And the previous sentence is plural because I'm sure she admitted lots people during the same period. Each of us will carry his or her own memories of the event.

There are a great many ways that MS can express itself; as many ways as there are nerves for the disease to attack.

The problems come from the confusion that arises with attempting to cure the reported symptom, say in Montel Williams case "My feet are burning", which any physician worth his salt would treat with anti-fungal remedies, which would be entirely useless since the actual problem may be a patch of myelin scraped off the nerve anywhere along the path from the feet to the brain.

That is one of the problems with MS.

Its a disease that affects people in way that challenge the thinking capacity of most medical personnel.

Its a topological disease, affecting the transmission of signals throughout the central nervous system and the brain, when we are forced to report our symptoms topographically, on the surface of things.

Just to make things, we can't even describe the triggers to the causes of the effect we can actually report on to the doctors who ask us "Where does it hurt?"

In my case, it doesn't even hurt (thank heavens.)

---- "It Can Happen To You" by: "Creamy.dk" http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1

"Conclusion:"

It started with a moment of "What's Happening?" for me in Mr Miller's history class, lord, so many years ago... I wasn't even sixteen.

As I just got back from shuffling to the store to get us things to celebrate Memorial Day with, I heave an inner sigh at memories of how fast and effortlessly I used to dance around life.

If I could take a single lesson back to my younger self, it would be it would be to relax.(Stress causes a weakening of the immune system to disease, but it them comes back with a friggin' vengeance, and that sucks.

And to eat more duck.

I hate ducks.

Specially since I love the taste.

All, and I do mean ALL, flue viruses are bred in the gut of Chinese ducks and my MS triggers seem to revolve around strains of flue.

---- "make it happen" by: "luminous" http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Happenstance"
by: "Torley on Piano"
http://torley.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Happening Again"
by: "Roche Limit"
http://www.rochelimit.ca/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"I Never Thought it Could Happen"
by: "nathan timothy"
http://www.nathan-online.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Things Happen Fast"
by: "Fuzzy Logic"
http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"It Can Happen To You"
by: "Creamy.dk"
http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"make it happen"
by: "luminous"
http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0357 Things range in rage

2009-05-22T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0356 Things range in rage

YouTube Road Rage by Catatonia
..

Road Rage
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm recording this in a studio on a day that is approaching 85°F. (30°C.)

Man, that's just too hot for me. I'm cowering here, next to the air conditioner and hugging it.

---- "Cowards All The Rage" by: "Ann Lynn" http://www.annlynnmusic.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Red Red Rage" by: "the Radio Knives" http://www.myspace.com/theradioknives

Feed Me comes third, so...

The other day, I was tweeting my sponsor, (I LOVE saying that word, sponsor,) [ http://twitter.com/Art2Shirt ] (the link is on the m4a right now, it you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the show and I'll take you right to his twitter page.)

I'm still in love with my t-shirts, I'm wearing one right now. The one of them says I'm "guitarded." I bought two of those so the other one went in the wash. It looks like its holding up well to the detergents.

Its beige and soft and I'm just loving it.

I'll be able to confirm this in a few days but I may have another sponsor. I think so... Just watching the post.

The CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all. Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing from a spill,

This is just a good idea.

So good in fact that I am breaking my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

But, as a concession, I have got Barbara to look at her purchase page and she is offering a percentage of the unit price to go to a variety of charities, the MS Society being among those.

---- "Heathen Rage" by: "Corey Harris" http://telarc.com/

"Thesis:"

I was supposed to take a course on digital recording, which would have been an easy three credits for me right, since I have lots and lots of practice, right?

Right?

Wrong!

Only the truly ignorant think they have nothing to learn.

I was looking forward to the course, but it didn't reach the desired number of stoonts, so I have plenty of time off to worry about the economy, the fact that i can't find a job and, I need distractions to take my mind off of my troubles.

A job would be a great way to do that.

---- "Sheeps rage" by: "JeSo" http://www.jeso.nl/

"Synthesis:"

I can't over estimate the importance of work,

it doesn't ever have to be as lofty as meaningful or fulfilling work.

It just needs to be something that we can do to feel useful in the larger scheme of things.

We disabled people need to work just as much as the next person. Possibly more considering the extra costs of medicines, therapies and treatments.

But we're shut out by the larger community who see somebody just taking up space so they give them work that is beneath them, that anybody could do, and that garners resentment by the person who's stuck with the task.

Meanwhile the job will get done poorly by somebody who's sure ha could do better and the handicapped can just go suck eggs. (Or suck air more likely because air is free, its the breathing masks to filter out the pollution that cost money.)

I'd like to lay the blame for this squarely at the manager's feet because they are in the position where they could do the most good but instead opt for what is the most expedient.

They sincerely don't give a second thought to either the disabled who they can get, at some tax saving to their employers, because they know that they can underuse somebody else and abuse them later.

---- "Rhodes Rage" by: "Kerry Politzer" http://www.kerrypolitzer.com/

"Conclusion:"

Ever get the feeling that I don't think much of the people who, after all, were my peers?

Privilege and responsibility don't enter into consideration. when reaching a hiring decision but expediency does.

This is not a meritocracy. Nobody gets what they deserve.

Your boss was not selected or hired because was the most competent; he was merely the most expedient.

And now we end off with something that sounds more like what we think we'll hear when the word rage is in a song's title.

---- "RoaD RaGe" by: "Intrabyte" http://www.myspace.com/intrabyte

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Cowards All The Rage"
by: "Ann Lynn"
http://www.annlynnmusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Red Red Rage"
by: "the Radio Knives"
http://www.myspace.com/theradioknives
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Heathen Rage"
by: "Corey Harris"
http://telarc.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Sheeps rage"
by: "JeSo"
http://www.jeso.nl/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Rhodes Rage"
by: "Kerry Politzer"
http://www.kerrypolitzer.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"RoaD RaGe"
by: "Intrabyte"
http://www.myspace.com/intrabyte
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0011

2009-05-18T01:00:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0011

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0011.m4a

YouTube: ..
----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Sick" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

This has been an interesting weekend.

It was full of discoveries.

First and foremost if the singer that just filled your ears at the opening of this episode.

That powerful set of pipes belongs to a breast cancer survivor who's the sole focus of the music on this episode.

"Bif Naked" has got to be one of the best ads for cancer treatments to cross the airwaves in, like, for evah.

More about her later, but for now ...

---- "Honeybee" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Thesis:

Who else could make a song out of killing a bee in her kitchen?

The next discovery is about helping everybody, even the heathy but over burdened student body.

I have something on my website by BarbCo [ http://barbco.biz/ ] (but if you're capable of getting the episodes in .m4a format you can just click on the image,) [something] that would have saved a few dropped coffee cups and soft drinks as I made my way around the campus.

---- "Red Flag" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Synthesis:

Barbara Hranilovich got in touch with me because I seem to be the only person who's doing stuff like bringing entertainment to the handicapped and actually looking for sponsors.

She'd already got her CADDi on an episode of Rachel Ray but as anybody'll tell you, getting one showing on anything is clearly not enough.

What it lacks in frequency, being only one showing on a stream, it also lacks in coverage, being only is areas where Rachel Ray is shown.

She's hoping that podcasts, with their repeatability and their long tails can help her with the frequency.

I'm doing my bit to expand the coverage and to multiply the reach of her own ads.

---- "River Of Fire" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Synthesis continued.

So I'm trying to talk Bif Naked into making an appearance in New York by telling her that there is definitely interest.

I'd love to read her tattoos and have her on my podcast,

---- "Save Your Breath" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Conclusion:

Go BifNaked.com, go BarbCo..biz, may we all become successful each in our own way and each in our own time.

---- "Welcome To The End" by: "Bif Naked" http://www.bifnaked.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Sick"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Honeybee"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Red Flag"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"River Of Fire"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Save Your Breath"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Welcome To The End"
by: "Bif Naked"
http://www.bifnaked.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042

2009-05-13T01:00:00.001-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0042.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 42

I had fun on Monday at WCBS FM.

It was an interesting visit.

I would never work there on-air. Man's got to know his own limitations after all, but I'd love to write for the guys on-air.

I'm still doing what I started on my internship at WFMU. Since its also podcast, you can also tune in to "The Media Squat" With Douglas Rushkoff any time of the day or night.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

-----

I even got my own sponsor now (It only took me three years , eh? :-)

Todd Wallbridge of TM Designs has started a website called MSTShirts.com [ http://www.mstshirts.com ] for promoting and selling art by artists who have MS, and T-Shirts of course.

By purchasing a shirt you will help support an MS artist and a donation is made to NMSS to further research into finding a cure.

The shirts are good quality cotton material and the print on them is really durable. Well worth it.

I'll get into more descriptions but they're on the site (just click now if you're listening in m4a format and it will launch your web browser to MSTShirts.com [ which is actually a repeater to http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

On behalf of MSers, I want to tank Todd for his support.

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

I really don't feel like listening to classical music anymore right now.

I was just listening to some Madeleine Peyroux and it has put me in an entirely different mood.

You're going to get a mix featuring song stylings of different divas who have some space on my iPod

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"
by "Madeleine Peyroux"
http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/flash_content/main.html
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Legend In My Living Room"
by "Annie Lennox"
http://www.annielennox.com/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Vogue"
by "Madonna"
http://www.madonna.com/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Money Changes Everything"
by "Cindy Lauper"
http://www.cyndilauper.com/index.php
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pornographer's Dream"
by "Suzanne Vega"
http://www.vega.net/
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow"
by "Björk (Sugarcubes)"
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Sugarcubes
here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0356 Summertime

2009-05-13T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0356 Summertime

YouTube
..

The Hollies - Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress, released on February 1, 1972 as a single by the Parlophone Records label.

It was yet another example of how friggin' clueless the suits are.

it was not being promoted in the least by EMI/Parlorphone since the Hollies had recently signed with Polydor.

I shouldn't wonder that they went to Polydor if that was the kid of support that the artists could expect from EMI/Parlorphone.

In yet another example of closing the barn door after the horses had all been barbecued in the smoldering ruin, when the record hit #2 in the 'States, EMI/Parlorphone finally figured out that it was being played, despite them and that it would have been worth promoting after all.

Idiots...

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Okay, the weather here in Joyzee is unexpectedly chill but school's out so it feels summertime.

So you're getting a summertime themed episode.

People, and I use the term loosely, have been dropping crap email in my in box and leaving stupid spam comments on my show episodes which indicate that they aren't listening, or even reading the friggin' script, so why should I possibly be interested doing them a favor?

---- "Hot Fun In The Summertime" by" "Sly and The Family Stone" http://www.slystonemusic.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Summertime" by" "Billie Holliday" http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Yesterday, I was tweeting my sponsor, (I LOVE saying that word, sponsor,) [ http://twitter.com/Art2Shirt ] (the link is on the m4a right now, it you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the show and I'll take you right to his twitter page.)

What I was actually twittering about is of no real consequence but the fact that I could just twitter him a note says something about the man.

He's connected, asynchronously, with the rest of the world.

I'm still in love with my t-shirts, one of them says I'm "guitarded." (Two of them really because I like his stuff so much i bought two of the same one.)

Its beige and soft and I'm just loving it.

Ok I was weird as a child and fought ever having to change my clothes until my parents struggled and wrestled whatever new garment they has bought for me on my skinny little xylophone of a rib cage.

They would have had much better luck with thee shirts like these because they feel great on my skin.

---- "Summertime" by" "Bob Crosby" http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,418789,00.html

"Thesis:"

I don't have anything of any consequence to impart today (as if I ever did.)

I just want to play some tunes about summertime.

Some are happy an some are sad.

Its a season not a mood but since I melt in the heat, its not the best time of the year for me.

---- "Summertime" by" "Janis Joplin" http://www.officialjanis.com/

"Synthesis:"

Man, I loved playing that version of 'Summertime" by "Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company."

That was some classy guitar work and I spent many an hour adapting it to a nylon string classical as opposed to the electric guitar James Gurley played at the time (I think it was a Fender Stratocaster.)

People may think that summer is a grand ol' time, but it means a couple of months of distinctly uncomfortable weather for MSers.

Well, except for Miss Chris out in the western deserts of the USA, but its a dry heat, isn't it.?

Personally, it doesn't matter if its wet or dry, its HOT.

I run, make that, I hobble over, to my air-conditioned office, sit in my nice cool chair with the wide open waffle pattern back and cruise the web all day until the temperature gets back to something that I can take.

Right now, its in the sixties maybe the low seventies and I just LOVE it.

---- "Summertime" by" "Glenn Miller" http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/

"Conclusion:"

Now I just want to end off on the fun side of summer.

When this song first came out, I knew that I absolutely loved summer, even if now I don't.

Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, was outrageously fun, way back in 1970.

---- "In the summertime" by" "Mungo Jerry" http://www.mungojerry.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Hot Fun In The Summertime"
by: "Sly and The Family Stone"
http://www.slystonemusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Billie Holliday"
http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Bob Crosby"
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,418789,00.html
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Janis Joplin"
http://www.officialjanis.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Summertime"
by: "Glenn Miller"
http://www.glennmillerorchestra.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"In the summertime"
by: "Mungo Jerry"
http://www.mungojerry.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

msb-0355 Tee for two and two for tees

2009-05-11T01:00:00.000-04:00

msb-0355 Tee for two and two for tees.

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This past week has been taken up with finals.

But I have been hearing from people and there has been some twittering.

---- "Seance" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Bygones" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I have a sponsor.

I have a sponsor.

If you click on the "MS T Shirts" icon on my blog entries, on my wiki or if you are listening on iTunes or another player which knows about .m4a formatted files you will be taken to the web site of people who do art and who have MS.

There's only seven of them so far with more coming soon (we MSers are a talented bunch,) and I can tell you that they are great T Shirts.

I got one "Little things" by "Mark Carpenter" and its a nice print on a well constructed T-Shirt.

6.1 oz., 100% cotton preshrunk jersey. Set-in rib knit collar and sleeve cuff. Double-needle stitched collar, cuffs and bottom hem. Quarter-turned body to eliminate center crease.

I feels great and I think I will be wearing this for years, It feels solid.

I'm geeky enough to just love "Brain Storm" by "Elizabeth Jameson". Its four slices of an MRI set and, well I'll just read you her note:

"My artwork involves a dynamic collaboration between the disciplines of art and science. I became an artist only after I was diagnosed with the disease of multiple sclerosis, and my current work consists of self-portraits based on magnetic resonance images (MRIs), or brain scans that documents the effects of the disease of multiple sclerosis on my brain.

This artwork is apart of my Brain Series, that consist etchings on paper and paintings on silk They explore the brain’s mystery, beauty and complexity and express my fascination with living with a chronic illness that involves the brain. My goal as an artist is to increase our understanding of the brain by making medical imaging more accessible to those who view these revealing pictures."

she says: "I am a wife, mother, friend, public interest lawyer, as well as an artist. I have progressive multiple sclerosis"

She has even got another in the same MRI image vein.

---- "You make Me Feel" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Thesis:"

Well my exams are over. Mazeltov and Hosana.

I'm currently off at WCBS to take a look around there (and to get to know them and to introduce myself to them.[Hey, maybe they need an inside man... {Ya never know}])

Then, I'm going off to WFMU to do my bit for my internship with "Douglas Rushkoff" on "The Media Squat" [ http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/03/douglas-rushkoffs-media-squat-debuts-tonight-on-wfmu.html ]

Its crazy but I actually like it, manning the community desk calling people up and setting things up.

The "Life Inc." wiki [ http://lifeinc.pbworks.com/ ], which is based on Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, has been set up and, now that I have more time to devote to it, it should get going for real now.

---- "Over Now" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Synthesis:"

The busier I am, the less time I have to complain about anything.

I have been a firm believer in Wikis since I first read the book by "Ward Cunningham" and "Bo Leuf" [ http://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Way-Quick-Collaboration-Web/dp/020171499X [

I have been using Wikipedia since it was filled with entries about little towns in England and little else.

I have also been particularly interested in the power of collaboration since I stated writing for money back in the late eighties and early nineties.

It went hand -in-hand with being so software developer who saw that collaborative software development could accomplish a whole lot more than being "the lone genius in the backroom."

I didn't mind being "the lone genius in the backroom" and it paid well but it was ultimately limiting.

A person can only accomplish so much unaided.

That's why I was a early supporter of egoless programming, software reviews and thorough software design.

My only regret was that I didn't get to push software design technique any further than I did.

---- "All I Want" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

"Conclusion:"

Keep on pushing, and pushing and pushing yourself.

Its the only way to let yourself know you're still alive.

---- "Dangerous" by" "Stavia" http://www.stavia.co.uk/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Seance"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Bygones"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"You make Me Feel"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Over Now"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"All I Want"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Dangerous"
by: "Stavia"
http://www.stavia.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

2009-04-29T01:00:00.001-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0041.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 41

I started my internship at WFMU on monday manning the community desk for "The Media Squat" With Douglas Rushkoff.

It was fun but one of the pieces of software is absolutely in major need of some software QA and possibly a UI rewrite.

Darn thing kept losing focus as I was trying to type and throwing all key keystrokes into a bit bucket without giving me any auditory feedback.

And that's my professional opinion as a software developer, team leader, project manager and QA analyst.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

I love Squirrel Nut Zippers so we're going to hear something from the album "Hot".

The tune is called "Memphis Exorcism" and I'll be playing it under the great news I want to share with all of you.

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" http://www.snzippers.com/

- -

I even got my own sponsor now (It only took me three years , eh? :-)

Todd Wallbridge of TM Designs has started a website called MSTShirts.com [ http://www.mstshirts.com ] for promoting and selling art by artists who have MS, and T-Shirts of course.

By purchasing a shirt you will help support an MS artist and a donation is made to NMSS to further research into finding a cure.

The shirts are good quality cotton material and the print on them is really durable. Well worth it.

I'll get into more descriptions but they're on the site (just click now if you're listening in m4a format and it will launch your web browser to MSTShirts.com [ which is actually a repeater to http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

On behalf of MSers, I want to tank Todd for his support.

"" by ""

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Memphis Exorcism" by "Squirrel Nut Zippers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Scheherazade, Opus 35 (The Kalender Prince)" by "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils)" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll )" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

2009-04-26T23:33:00.001-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0010

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0010.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Building To Last Forever" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I just spent an interesting Saturday at the College attending a leadership seminar.

I sort of came automatically with my new role as marketing something or other for WSPC.

It turned out to be a whole lot more interesting than I'd originally though.

Lets get one thing straight, I've gone to a lot of "team building exercises", "management retreats", colloquia and seminars.

I knew what to expect. Lots of huggy feelly crap, clap-trap, and twaddle.

But surprise surprise; it actually turned out to be better run than some of the ones my previous employers had shelled out the sheckels for.

---- "Building Blocks" by: "Anthony L Smith" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300

Thesis:

The only problem with the career building part of the day long sessions was that it was not, I repeat not, disabled friendly in any way, shape of form.

I am, uh, mobility challenged and as such was left literally sitting, wall flower like, along the wall while observing the action occurring at the center of the hall.

Okay, I enjoyed it because I have a perverse and nasty sense of humor which would probably get my face slapped, at the very least,, should my thoughts ever be open for public scrutiny. :-)

---- "Building Around It" by: "Elika" http://www.elikamusic.com/

Synthesis:

Its a sad fact, but I will never fit in.

Now that I've finally got over myself, I still can't fit in...

It took me years to recognize that I really was uh, uniquely qualified and that not everybody could do what I did.

it took me many more years to accept my MS, after it became obvious to everybody else that something was wrong, though schlepping around with a friggin' cane made it kind of plain and simple, even to me.

It is just as plainly obvious to everybody with eyes that I am a lot older than everybody else on campus.

So why am I, make that was I, so pissed off that people were missing the obvious about the fact that all of the team building exercises were designed in such an exclusionary fashion?

---- "Burning Building" by: "Joe Peters" http://cdbaby.com/all/joedaiwarriors

Synthesis continued.

Its all a part of the exclusion principle.

Its in fact the most pernicious part.

Unless somebody is in my shoes, they don't ever think of anybody who might be in my shoes, of anybody who might be in any other shoes but their own.

That is why all of the professions and skilled trades in the world have a bunch of checklists, to make sure that they don't friggin' well forget that there are at least fifteen percent percent of the world who is different from them, no matter how different they think they AREN'T.

That's more that one in eight people who are having to struggle, to strain or to cope with the fact that they're structured differently the system builders from themselves.

---- "Building A Better Boy" by: "Machine Boy" http://www.machineboy.co.uk/

Conclusion:

Yeah, I'm handicapped.

I can't dance.

That doesn't mean I can't think.

---- "Stop That Building" by: "Verticals" http://myspace.com/surftheverticals

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
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Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

---- "Building To Last Forever" by: "after touch" http://website.lineone.net/~nkay/afttch.html
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building Blocks" by: "Anthony L Smith" http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandid=106300
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building Around It" by: "Elika" http://www.elikamusic.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Burning Building" by: "Joe Peters" http://cdbaby.com/all/joedaiwarriors
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Building A Better Boy" by: "Machine Boy" http://www.machineboy.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

---- "Stop That Building" by: "Verticals" http://myspace.com/surftheverticals
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

wspc_P34kO1l_xxxx

2009-04-24T15:18:00.002-04:00

Sorry but time does not permit.

I'm just going to rerun the series from now until school lets out.

-Charles-A.

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

2009-04-22T15:42:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0040

Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

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This is episode 40

I got the internship at WFMU so I will be helping Mr. Rushkoff with the community desk of "The Media Squat".

I got a really quick introduction to their production desk last Monday and I really liked the people I'll be working with.

Plus I've got to help them set up a community wiki (PBWiki.com to the rescue) and get it hooked up to their existing web set up, get some content prepared and out it out there for feed back from the community.

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

I love acappella so we're going to hear something from the album "Brontosaurus" by "Da Vinci's Notebook".

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" http://www.amazon.com/Brontosaurus-Da-Vincis-Notebook/dp/B00006RZH0

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Enormous Penis" by: "Da Vinci's Notebook" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symfoni nr 6 i h-moll, Pathetique (tredje satsen)" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Pianosonat i b-moll (tredje satsen, Begravningsmarsch)" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Zampa - Ouvertyr" by: "Ferdinand Hérold" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tannhäuser - Gästernas intåg" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Kröningsmarsch" by: "Giacomo Meyerbeer" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Washington Post" by: "John Philip Sousa" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

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And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

2009-04-20T14:00:00.001-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0009

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0009.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Tiny Bubbles" by: "Idle Fingers" http://www.myspace.com/ziggyzu

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

I've just spent a sleepless night reading, nay devouring, "The Dead Man" by "Joel Goldman" http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

I loved reading the book.

The plot was tightly written, the characters were believable, their motivations were just as believable and the whole thing was masterfully crafted.

So well crafted that it going to take me a few days to try and come up with a review that does the book justice without revealing a thing.

---- "Space Bubbles" by: "Chad Nantai" http://chadnantais.com/

Thesis:

Mr. Goldman is turning into a master writer; one who can be compared with the best mystery writers out there, alive or passed away, and he needs not fear being out-shined by the company.

This book was a delight to read and kept me wondering from beginning to the penultimate chapter.

His description of the motivation was masterful and he didn't stretch my credulity in the least. (Some writers I have been tempted to review I ultimately didn't because they committed the sin of stretching the thin film I call my ability to suspend disbelief until the bubble burst.

---- "Bursting Bubbles" by: "cat malojian" http://www.catmalojian.com/

Synthesis:

Like I said last week, I enjoyed reading abut a hero who's life is as crapped up by disease as mine is (different disease means different crap but the same general reaction to it.)

The manifestations of the disease may be different but the feeling of interruption and my reaction to it are entirely too familiar.

In Mr. Goldman's case, it manifests less intrusively that an MS exacerbation but because it is more violent though of shorter duration doesn't mean that its any less disruptive.

---- "Funk Bubbles" by: "Funk Bubbles" http://taiwanmilk.com/

Synthesis continued.

In effect, I am going to make this show episode about nothing because I am still wondering about how to treat the review in such a way that it tantalizes and teases while revealing nothing (sort of like a stripper doing a fan dance. :-)

Suffice it to say that I do NOT want to reveal the McGuffin of the book, that crucial detail without which the book is entirely puzzling but when revealed explains so much.

The other characters in the book are fleshed out enough to be believable.

Mr Goldman successfully returns to the theme of familial loss enough to retain the sympathy he had created in the first character that the books ultimate conclusion is fitting (even though the return of his spouse and the departure of his friend with benefits leaves the reader with a sense the tragic.)

---- "Burst The Bubble" by: "Cruiserweigh" http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight

Conclusion:

The books ends with an entirely optimistic sentence.

There will be an interesting sequel.

---- "Creative Burst" by: "Sean Boyle" http://www.modernbizzle.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Tiny Bubbles"
by: "Idle Fingers"
http://thoughtprocess.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Space Bubbles"
by: "Chad Nantai"
http://chadnantais.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Bursting Bubbles"
by: "cat malojian"
http://www.catmalojian.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Funk Bubbles"
by: "Milk"
http://taiwanmilk.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Burst The Bubble"
by: "Cruiserweigh"
http://www.myspace.com/cruiserweight
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Creative Burst"
by: "Sean Boyle"
http://www.modernbizzle.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

2009-04-17T15:43:00.001-04:00

wspc_P34kO1l_0015

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Ain't No Cure For Love" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Thesis:

I just started reading a new book by someone I reviewed and interviewed about a year ago.

I'm talking about Mr. Joel Goldman. http://www.joelgoldman.com/content/index.asp

He writes really, really well and I find his books to printed on mouse traps, because they are really really hard to let go of once you pick one up.

---- Closing Time" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Synthesis:

Joel Goldman is a great suspense / mystery writer.

I was introduced to him with his book "Shake Down" which I reviewed and, since I have MS and he has "The shakes" which afflict his character Jack Davis, as a fellow sickie, he was good enough to let me interview him.

I have the latest "Jack Davis" novel and its absolutely a page turner.

I'f I didn't have to do this show and registration for classes and my internship and crap like that, I would be finished this book already because its that good.

I have to tear myself away to take care of mundane details because the consequences are too dire for me to ignore. (Or at least my wife tell me so, and in no uncertain terms.)

---- "Democracy" by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

We even managed to get a sponsor.

Sponsor: Prince of Pizza

---- "Suzanne" by: "Peter Gabriel" http://www.amazon.com/Tower-Song-Songs-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B000001EZK

Synthesis Part Deux

I am starting an internship next Monday.

I am lining up the paperwork but its the kind of work I'd do out of love, never mind the marks.

I'm going to do my best to help the station WFMU and WFMU.org.

I have been looking at their website and I'm going to suggest that they should have a page that opens up into a wiki.

I'm also going to suggest that I be allowed take their entire collection and digitize it (And it is one big-ass collection of vinyl and CDs) and put it all on their intranet so that they will never have to worry about their collection getting physically damaged.

It can even be backed up and a copy, or three, of the back up be kept off site for protection.

Instead, their DJs can call up any tune in the entire collection from the library, mix and match their play list and enjoy the music.

---- "First We Take Manhattan by: "Leonard Cohen" http://www.leonardcohen.com/

Conclusion:

Okay, I'm going to finish the book tonight as its a real page turner.

---- "Dance Me To The End Of Love" by: "Leonard Cohen | Madeleine Peyroux" http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/flash_content/main.html

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

2009-04-15T11:35:00.001-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0039

Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

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This is episode 39

I think I've landed an internship at a radio station [ http://wfmu.org ] and I'm not worried about it folding before I get there.

I'm trying to get an internship with Douglas Rushkoff who's doing the show "The Media Squat". [ http://mediasquat.net/ ]

Its an intelligent show with an intelligent host, intelligent guests talking about intelligent things.

Definitely "not" Fox's TMZ (which is one of the most vapid, vacuous and vain shows e-v-e-r-.)

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" http://www.duaneandrews.ca/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Bees and Flowers-Joe Smallwood's Reel" by: "Duane Andrews" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rhapsody in Blue" by: "George Gershwin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symphony #9 In E Minor, Op. 95, B 178, "From The New World" - 1. Adagio, Allegro Molto" by: "Antonin Dvorák" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Union - Paraphrase de concert" by: "Louis Moreau Gottschalk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Grand Canyon Suite, Third Movement: On the Trail" by: "Ferde Grofé" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

2009-04-13T01:00:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0008

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0008.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Golden West" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

---- We got a sponsor!

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

Intro

Things are hotting up 'round the ol' homestead.

I've sent messages to Sir Harold Evans of publishing fame and to the US Postmaster General Mr. John Potter about my ideas to increase revenues for the post office, create a subscription or paid article retrieval for the press and, uh, save democracy for those who can afford it (or they can go the the public library and get the news there.)

I've also just discovered radio station WFMU 91.1 in Jersey City. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU ].

I have also been catching up on their podcasts and I absolutely LOVE what I hear.

One show in particular has caught my ear: WFMU's The Media Squat with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://www.mediasquat.net/ ]

Smart host. Smart topics. Smartly done. Its a great show.

So great that I'm going to try to volunteer and do an internship there.

---- "The Golden Shovel" by: "Frozen Carp" http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046

Thesis:

Ooo boy.

I just waiting for the mail to come.

I'm about to get to review another book by Joel Goldman.

I'm going to interview Mr. Goldman again.

I originally did the last interview with Mr. Goldman almost a year ago back in show msb-0292.

---- "Blue and Gold" by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band" http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband

Synthesis:

I really enjoyed reading his first book.

I enjoyed talking with him about the book and the main hero / protagonist, a man who was flawed and sick with a neurological condition, just as I was, am and will be until I kick the frackin' bucket.

---- "Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

Synthesis continued.

I am waiting on tender hooks for deliveries, emails and dispatches from near and far.

---- "Goldie Hawn" by: "Butane Variations" http://www.butanevariations.com/

Conclusion:

I'm having way too much fun with this sh, uh, stuff. Yeah, stuff will do.

---- "Tide Of Gold" by: "Frank Thewes" http://www.music-is.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

The music this time was

"Golden West"
by: "Reginald Clair"
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"The Golden Shovel"
by: "Frozen Carp"
http://www.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=5046
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Blue and Gold"
by: "Ekayani and the Healing Band"
http://www.myspace.com/ekayaniandthehealingband
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Lover, Ive Been Dreamin Bout a 100 Bags of Gold"
by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"
http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Goldie Hawn"
by: "Butane Variations"
http://www.butanevariations.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Tide Of Gold"
by: "Frank Thewes"
http://www.music-is.com/
album: "none"
via: http://music.podshow.com/

I got tired of waiting and sent my suggestions off.

2009-04-12T23:57:00.002-04:00

The worse part of waiting for somebody else to see something is that they might not see what's right in front of their eyes.

Nor do they get the hint, no matter how broadly it given.

So I decided to stop namby-pandy-ing about, making suggestions about fixing the medium of what will soon no longer be called the press.

I wrote to the most eminent editor, writer, newsman, that I could think of, Sir Harold Evans.

Then I wrote to Mr. John E. Potter, the US Postmaster General.

I wrote them both about my idea of what a collaboration between the post office and the publishers could accomplish.

If I get a reply, it will be a miracle, but you never know.

Basically, I wrote to Sir Evans was:

Separating “News” from “papers” is the first half of the problem..

That would cut the costs of reporting “news” to the barest minumum.

Google indexing of news is a non-issue. It can definitely be handled without a problem by co-opting them while hanging onto the “news” and letting go of the information when its the “olds”.

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds can let people know that there is some new information file somewhere while keeping that file hidden from Google. The generation of the RSS feed can be automatic and consist of an alphabetical list of the words of interest in the information and a snippet of the content after which a person can decide whether it is of interest or not. The information file itself is instantly accessible, but on a subscription or a one-time-charge basis.

The other half of the problem is finding a partner to handle the money aspect.

Someone who:
• nobody expects to work for free,
• is quite used to small sums,
• can act as a non-lending bank,
• can issue small denomination pieces,
• has the required international agreements,
• has the necessary IT infrastructure to handle RSS requests,
• is already in the business of information distribution for “franking” or FOR MONEY.

That someone sounds an awful lot like “The Post Office,” doesn’t it?

If you want the “news”, you pay for it, from your “news” provider, paid for through the Postal Service.

If you just want the “olds” you can use Google to search for it.

What I wrote to Mr Potter is more complicated, more detailed and covers the expenditure requirements and the income opportunities of such a joint venture.

Sadly, I didn't get to gather together all of the information I'd put out there before sending it off, so regretfully I don't have it here for you to read.

But you can rest assured I was on my best business behavior.

No more pussyfooting around.

NewsPAPERS are dying, NOT news.

2009-04-08T23:51:00.002-04:00

This is a repost of something on:

The Newspaper Death Watch [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/pruitt-to-naa-game-is-on-the-line.html#comment-4305 ] and
Revenue 2.0 [ http://revenuetwopointzero.com/solutions/classified-solutions/classified-solutions/#comment-302 ]

The paper part of the newspaper is dead … Get over it.

The only thing that will remain is going to be vanity presses like HP is proposing with their printing service [ http://magcloud.com/ ]

We didn’t fight for the rights of the buggy whip makers either … Suck it up.

Journalism however is definitely NOT DEAD.

It has been democratized, popularized, localized, opened up, opened on and opened for a new business model.

If you worked as an editor or for an editor, you are going to find that the average person hasn’t suddenly improved in spelling or grammar, logic or comprehension, ability to communicate or in layout skills.

We just have to find you a new way to get news that you write out there; .PDF files on your servers being distributed via RSS files that the Post Office has on their server and that gives access to the latest content for $ would go a long way towards granting you a new lease on life.

The RSS file can even contain the highlights and a little bit of text from the articles which are still on your servers.

Actually, you can extract the words from your articles, remove duplicates, sort them, and let Google be able to include or eliminate an article from a search, present the little highlight snatch of text to let potential readers determine if they are interested and then the post office can: 1) let subscribers access the article OR 2) charge for access to the article.

This last part, subscription fulfillment or piece-meal charging, would be done by the post office. Nobody has ever had a problem paying for a stamp or expected a letter to be delivered without a stamp.

Once the “news” becomes the “olds”, say after a week for most articles, let Gooogle have at the original that you can store in a separate server.

a) The transmission of the articles is almost free.

b) The distribution of the articles is almost free.

c) The access is cheap but NOT free and the post office sees to that and that helps them with with their business model.

d) The post office send you a share of the money collected (and YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN AN ARTICLE IS FETCHED OFF OF YOUR SERVERS FROM A PARTICULAR IP ADDRESS.)

There is a business model that would work, it would
1) let new gathering organizations gather news,
2) let readers read,
3) let the post office disseminate and collect payments and disburse funds

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038

2009-04-08T01:00:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0038.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 38

Well, we're coming onto Easter Break.

Is it routine if its always broken up with holidays?

And we've got a real sponsor this time"

----

Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza, serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

----

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" http://www.macjams.com/artist/thetiler

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

This is going to be a short show because I've got a class right after.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Swing Low" by: "Bill Furner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Agnus Dei" by: "Samuel Barber" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Cavalleria rusticana" by: "Pietro Mascagni" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fidedio" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tannhauser" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Psalm 39" by: "Maurice Greene" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"La Traviata" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0007

2009-04-06T01:00:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0007

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0007.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- ""

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Failure to plan on someone else's part constituted an emergency on my part. Grrrrr....

I'm going to replay the last episode with Hillary Rubin

----

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

----

Sponsorship message: Prince of Pizza

Portions of today's programming are underwritten by

Prince of Pizza
763 Bergen Avenue in
Jersey City
ph: 201-434-9453

Pizza, Hot food, Salads, Wings, Heroes, Panini and Cold Beverages.

Prince of Pizza; serving St. Peter's College and Jersey City for more than 40 years.

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

wspc_P34kO1l_0014

2009-04-03T16:07:00.000-04:00

wspc_P34kO1l_0014

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0014.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

---- "Menopause Graduate" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/

Thesis:

some days I just got the blues.

This is one of them gray, dirty ol' days.

I'm tired, dirty, I feel soiled, not just dirty but like dirt.

The rain is not washing my sins away. Its just leaving me a stinkin' pile of slimy slag.

---- "Bluez Comes Callin" by: "Billy Jones" http://www.billy-jones.com/

Synthesis:

If you are playing this on an .m4a player, you're getting all the band pics and web sites, if you ain't I'm going to read them all at the end'

---- "Devil by my side" by: "DemianBand" http://www.demianband.net/

---- "Lake of fire" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow2009/02/01

---- "Sparrow in the rain" by: "Jerry Forney" http://www.jerryforney.com/

---- "Howling At The Moon" by: "Kenny Neal" http://alligatorrecords.com/index.cfm?section=artists&artistID=18

Synthesis Part Deux

Then again, I'm feeling down and l-a-z-y.

Sometimes I feel like I'm just here wankin' off.

---- "Hummin Blues" by: "Harrison Kennedy" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

---- "Same Damn Time" by: "Mike Andersen Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

Conclusion:

I'm tired. Things are not going so great and I'm feeling hard done by. Screw the world.

---- "Heard The Angels Sing" by: "Ramon Goose" http://www.ramongoose.com/

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037

2009-04-01T01:00:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0037.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 37

Man, I'm so frigin' worn out today...

My wife had a paper due today so she was up really friggin' early to work on it...

Man I did not get a good night's sleep...

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" http://www.myspace.com/erikkjelland

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

Good thing that this show is so engrained into my routine that I think I could do it in my sleep.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"I'm tired" by: "Erik Kjelland" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet" by: "Maurice Ravel" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture" by: "Jacques Offenbach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Nocturnes: Nuages" by: "Claude Debussy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"L'Arlésienne Suite #1 - Prelude" by: "Georges Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ Symphony": First Movement" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Premier livre de pièces, No. 15: Le Coucou" by: "Louis-Claude Daquin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.
----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0006

2009-03-30T01:01:00.000-04:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0006

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0006.m4a

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- ""

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Today we have a special treat.

I'm going to play an episode of the MSBPodcast that I did about a chat with a fellow MSer by the name of "Hillary Rubin"

----

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

----

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

2009-03-30T01:00:00.001-04:00

msb-0353 An Interview with Hillary Rubin

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

This week we're, ah who'm I kiddin', "I" 'm featuring an interview with Hillary Ruben.

I met her through some fed back via Twitter from YoGeek [ http://twitter.com/YoGeek ] who used to work for LibSyn, the people who host and track the audio portion of this show.

---- "Citizens of the World Edit" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "After" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am taking a new tack so you may yet hear from a sponsor.

But for now, enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Home" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Thesis:"

As I said in the feedback segment, I was introduced to Ms. Rubin in a rather circuitous route.

I never expected it would lead to meeting a fascinating woman and another MSer who, while not in denial, is calling herself someone who has been diagnosed with MS but who doesn't have MS.

Or, more to the point, MS certainly doesn't have her.

Ms Rubin is a Yoga instructor, a teacher, a "transformational health expert"... well Ms Rubin is ms Rubin, a unique creature of rare spiritual and physical strength and wisdom.

You'll get to meet her after this next song.

---- "Watching You Dance" by: "Carmen Hillary" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary

"Synthesis:"

Give me a break folks.

You really should download the podcast if you want to hear Ms. Rubin. Its well worth it.

Just click on the following link and subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

I don't want to type that much and, apart from telling you to goto http://www.iamnotamess.com and http://www.askhillary.com , I'd rather you heard it from her own lips.

---- "Angel Now" by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega" http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/

"Conclusion:"

So there you have Hillary Rubin's take on MS and MSers.

(And for those of you who feel cheated by this transcript and its brevity, drop me a line and I'll try to get ,

I quite like her refreshing approach towards and disability, the focus being on the ability and less on the "dis".

And listen for further episodes of this podcast because I'm going to be interviewing someone from Teva Pharmaceutical [ http://www.tevausa.com/ ] about their "Bravo" trial of an oral MS medicine.

Okay, its not available through an inhaler yet (but I "will" make sure to tell him about my own lay-person's thoughts on using the largest permeable membrane in the human body, the lungs, like the tobacco and marijuana cigarette manufacturers did centuries ago to make lots and lots of money.)

But at least its something better than jabbing myself with needles, which leads to all kinds of injection site complication, like cysts, opportunistic infections, swelling, rosacea among others, and meets with all kinds of patient resistance and abandonment of the therapy.

---- "Hope remains" by: "Sonic Mystery" http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Citizens of the World Edit"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"After"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Watching You Dance"
by: "Carmen Hillary"
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/www.myspace.com/carmenhillary
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Angel Now"
by: "Daphne Rubin-Vega"
http://www.daphnerubin-vega.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Hope remains"
by: "Sonic Mystery"
http://sonicmystery.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

wspc_P34kO1l_0013

2009-03-13T01:00:00.001-04:00

wspc_P34kO1l_0012

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0012.m4a

YouTube ->. .

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

Never let on that you know what's coming.

---- "Magic GB Jazz" by: "AjT" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=Album+de+Alain&st=album

Thesis:

This is a speech meant to persuade.

Although that implies that there would be some mode of thought that might imply some debate which would imply that I might wrong about the stance I took.

I seriously doubt that there can be any such error because I am reacting to any discoveries and adapting in kind, but not in direction, to any new facts which arise.

I am not going to try to persuade you of the correctness of my approach since I took the only approach that I saw as solving the most problems, including some that weren't anticipated in the least by the people who originally informed my own opinions about peak oil.

I have also drawn from my own experience. as well as the fractional ones evinced by the same people I have been studying.

Unlike most debaters and most debates, I am the first to admit that things are not black or white.

Heck, that aren't even gray. I'm overseeing over the construction of a rainbow.

Inductive reasoning, wherein I acquire facts and opinions in order to generate something more generic from the specifics, is tightly coupled with deductive reasoning, wherein I am attempting to test the rules as revealed to me in the first place.

I do these kinds of reasoning in order to come up with a suitable yet sufficiently open-ended kind of syllogism, or logical appeal, to solve the conundrums raised by peak oil. ([Greek: συλλογισμός — "conclusion," "inference"], [usually the categorical syllogism)] which can form a kind of logical argument in which one proposition [the conclusion] is inferred from two others [the premises] of a certain form. Thank Wikipedia for the actual definition: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism ])

I am now well aware of the 256 rules for crafting syllogisms. (Many of which don't apply here.)

Of course, I am "not" constructing any syllogisms because they are too fractional and would require a level of problem decomposition too fine to be useful at this stage.

In that respect I am actively guilty of treading on the logic of my argument in the same way that I always accused database analyst of always mashing separate and distinct objects together instead of respecting the articulations presented by the inter-object relationships. "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."

---- "Frogmouth" by: Bift http://amiestreet.com/music/bift/bift/frogmouth

Synthesis:

I achieved my understanding of peak oil by thinking of it not as a thing, or even as a series of things, of "if then" rules, but by thinking of it as a process, more specifically as a mathematical function of two intersecting curves.

The arguments for and against peak oil are illusory. They refer to specific instances none of which argue for or against peak oil but instead refer to degrees of the event of peak oil.

Peak oil consists of two intersecting curves, one of demand and the other one of supply.

The game of peak oil consists of reacting properly to the motion of the curves along the horizontal axis of oil and the vertical axis of price, and to the motion of their point of intersection which is the price point and its also where demand creation and demand destruction meet.

There's nothing to argue with. Its just two horizontally moving curves, one high-y sloping down to low-y and the other one low-y climbing up to high-y.

Like "Foghorn Leghorn"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn ] once famously said, "I say, I say ... you can argue with me son, but you cain't argue with mathematics."

Now the implications of the motion of the two curves are the rapidly rising and falling price of oil, and the steady trend upwards as supplies fall over the next century, world-wide.

Guys, remember taking your date out in your jalopy telling the gas jockey to "fill her up" while holding your arm over the roof line, out of eye shot of your date, and holding up one finger per dollar you actually wanted him to pour into the tank.

Of course not. You're probably all too young.

Since the seventies, its been a pose with both hands held up in supplication, tendering your wallet to the one armed bandit at the pump.

Some horizontal slides of the supply curve have never slid back to the position they originally held.

What's fun is that as supply destruction takes hold, just by OPEC withholding their oil, before the demand can react to the new equilibrium, the price at the pump jumps up vertiginously.

(Remember the summer of 2008, with $4.00+ price at the pump. Its got to do with the lag time between supply pricing and demand adjustments. Its even out of the hands of OPEC. The price went up immediately because the oil companies weren't going to do "you" any favors. OPEC upped the supply and even dropped their price but it takes even longer for the greed to dissipate. They weren't going to benefit by charging you less, now were they?)

So what do we have left to disagree about?

What direction we want the avalanche to fall? (Yeah ... You stand there... You wait... You get buried... I'm running, Jack. With my cane I need to take a good long time 'cause I'm not interested in playing "Frosty The Snowman.")

---- "Gunslinger" by: "Danny Weis" http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Danny-Weis/dp/B000CA91D0

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.crossphade.com/press.html

Synthesis Part Deux

As I asked before: "What have got left to disagree about?"

The shape of the world that will emerge from this lubricious debacle is up to us, entirely up to us.

If we do nothing things are going to change anyway and I can bet you that we won't like the change, because, like the Red Queen said, "It takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place."

So we're going to face a challenge.

How can we face it with the minimum amount of effort for the maximum benefit. Or we can be bull headed and suddenly discover that there's only three hundred and sixty million of us and there are nineteen times as many people competing for oil.

Oh and by the way we can forget about buying oil from Venezuela. The Chinese already have dibs on it. While we weren't looking, they've been turning all the foreign assets and debt that we've been forcing on them into hard currency and buying everything all over the planet with our own fiscal instruments.

Was Wal*Mart good for America?

Not only did we decimate our own production capacity by off-shoring everything, not only did we wreck our commercial infrastructure by building these huge soulless identical box stores where we all bought the same identical crap no matter what, but we sent all of that money to Asia to do it.

Now they hold so much of our debt that we've basically screwed the pooch.

If we're stupid enough not to get off the barrel, we can look forward to paying much, much more for our oil.

I figure we've got fifty years before we're hoisting a glass of "Penzoil" [ http://www.pennzoil.com/ ] like it was a $160,000, in 1985 dollars, bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux. [ http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html ]

Ok. We are idiots. We have not been paying attention and ignored that silky sound of sharpened tempered metal slicing into our own throats.

The choice is do we smarten up and pull back from oil now or does our collective head fall into the bloody basket.

Personally, it will happen on such a time scale that I don't have to care.

I have no issue and I have nothing riding on tomorrow.

The question is not mine, but its "yours."

Are you going to get off of oil nicely, with sure, measured steps, or will get your daughters' tubes tied and make your sons' into castrati.

---- "Last Tango In NYC" by: "The Four Bags" http://amiestreet.com/music/the-four-bags/offshore/last-tango-in-nyc

Conclusion:

The world is not nice, not fair, not gentle.

It makes mince meat out of the complacent.

Don't be complacent.

Now, how can we get ourselves out of this situation?

That is the thesis of the next speech.

---- "The Rosochacha" by: "Greg Federico"
Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034

2009-03-04T01:00:00.000-05:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034

Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0034.m4a

Video Links

YouTube ->

This is episode 34

Turning out to be an extremely short week podcast wise.

Monday's "The Disability Show" wasn't, because of the snowfall in and around Jersey City.

So the show that was downloaded via iTunes is actually next week's show. Which works out because I won't have the time that weekend to record a new one.

Next, IBS.

No its not an assessment of my rhetorical skills.

It where I'm going to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At a conference. In New York City.

College is fun ... I think ...

"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" http://www.geologicrecords.net/

----

We got PSAs:

----

PSA_WSPC_CampusSafety

----

Here's a couple of proper, honest to goodness, real promos. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Promo_WSPC_Pauwwow.com

----

I just had a thought "a propos" of nothing.

What if we were to buy PDFs of our newspapers via iTunes, with RSS distribution of the files sort of like podcasts, and collection of the money through Apple?

Imagine getting an in-depth version of the stuff you get on the web for free now but delivered up in a PDF file; with all kinds of value added stuff like pictures, interviews with the writers about how the piece came to be written...

It could even be a ZIP file conbining different content.

I'm just sayn'. It could be worth looking into...

Given the grim coverage of the melt down in the news publishing market it might be a solution. (I often post to the "Newspaper Death Watch" [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ])

Now to get the word out to the New York Times... (Done)

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"For This You Went To College?" by: "George Hrab" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16: First Movement" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Sonata in C Major, Opus 53, "Waldstein": Third Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor K466: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Impromptu in G-flat Major D899, No.3" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Arabesque, Opus 18" by: "Robert Schumann" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Nocturne in B-flat Major: Opus 9, No.1" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0352 Lets see how this helps

2009-03-02T01:00:00.002-05:00

msb-0352 Lets see how this helps.

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Well I am much calmer this week. (Yes, I think the msb podcasts are becoming a weekly features, mixed in with the disability show, the thyme warp and peak oil podcasts.)

I'm too old, too sick, too tired and too wise to put up with the intersine warfare otherwise known office politics sucking the joy out of my life.

I left the kids to it. If they think it important and worth keeping score, I wish them luck.

But I've noticed that they're no different from their 'rents, when all they know how to do is say "you can't" "you shouldn't" and "Don't".

Life belongs to those who seize it.

The nay sayers just hold smoke.

You can make any case you want for not spending the trifling sums, and argue 'till the cows come home, but I'm podcasting to a whole bunch of people and they're not.

One of us is smart, and ... Well, you can finish that sentence yourselves.

---- "Water From The Well" by: "Bill Kahler" http://billkahler.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "another farewell" by: "carmichael" http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am not even bothering anymore.

These shows are my gift to you.

Enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "The Well" by: "Soma Sonic" http://www.somasonic.com/

"Thesis:"

I'm sitting here still feeling the loss of my mother.

We had to open up a safe deposit box that we've since discoveredthat she still owned when she'd gone into a home. (A polite euphemism for "we parked her somewhere safe until the inevitable". [I don't kid myself, I was a horrible son, but I was the son she raised me to be.])

Its depressing and my eyes are almost watering.

Its been months since she died but the strange sense of forever being cut adrift on a wider sea still makes it hard for me to breathe.

I am my mother's son after all...

But that's not what the topic of the next few (2) shows are going to be about.

These shows concern venture capitalism.

---- "Everything Is Swell In Weehawken" by: "Jim Testa http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta

"Synthesis:"

Its very strange the attachments we form and the ties that we bind ourselves up in.

When we techies get in bed with venture capitalists we are basically signaling that "they", meaning the venture capitalists, can make a lot of money in this podcasting racket.

But podcasting is not a place with broad base appeal by definition.

Oh it might be enough for me to make a living, eventually, but I'm hardly going to be selling beer to the masses. (Ok ... "Pacifico Clara" which is a great tasting beer, and I'd say that even if they paid me. [In fact, I've got in touch with them to tell them about podcasting.])

By definition, its a place where a lot of work is going to go into supporting a few podcasters for small, but quite measurable, results.

I'm no Leo Laporte with thousands of fans who tune into the podcasts and swamp the sponsor's sites with click-throughs.

Actually with the .m4a formatted files I use for these shows, I can take you to a specific web page in your browser or even launch your email client to possibly send an email to whoever would like you to send them a email.

Its really connected and it works with iTunes on Macs, on PCs, it works with iPhones, iPod Touches and it can even give you more information on a lowly stand-alone iPod.

If you're a musician, its great that I could bring you to a web site where you could buy the tune your hearing.

If I'm discussing something, I can put links to web pages filled with more information on the topic.

If I'm mentioning a product, I can put links to that too.

---- "Well Run Dry" by: "Juneteenth" http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth

"Conclusion:"

No, venture capitalists won't take any notice of podcasting because they don't see the ROI in it for them.

But podcasts are for a self-selecting audience, tailor made for makers of anything, producers of anything, that serves the audience's constellation of needs, people who want the answer to the old conundrum of not being able to advertise in print because its too expensive when they can even find a magazine that fit their demographic.

The "newspaper death watch" site is just filled with opportunities.

The print version of the "Bataan Death March" happening right now is the inevitable consequence of companies establishing their presence on the web and being able to eschew print advertising.

That tells me that their rates of return on the web are acceptable when compared to print advertising.

Not great ROI, but acceptable at getting the word out, (something where podcasting could/should/would help,) and with answering their customers and potential customers in ways that print media advertising never could.

Say goodbye print.

---- "TREAT YOU WELL" by: "steph" http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract

Song list

"Water From The Well"
by: "Bill Kahler"
http://billkahler.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"another farewell"
by: "carmichael"
http://www.carmichaelmusic.co.uk/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"The Well"
by: "Soma Sonic"
http://www.somasonic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Everything Is Swell In Weehawken"
by: "Jim Testa"
http://www.myspace.com/jimtesta
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"Well Run Dry"
by: "Juneteenth"
http://www.myspace.com/juneteenth
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

"TREAT YOU WELL"
by: "steph"
http://myspace.com/stephandshwepp
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com

----

Photo Credits:

All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

----

Books:

go to by books page at

http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations

----

Links:

Guy David - intro & theme
http://www.guydavid.com

iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

iPodder
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware
A.K.A.
Juice
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

iTunes link to download this show
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170

Multiple Sclerosis Blog
http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/

This podcast:
http://www.MSBPodcast.com/

The Ouch Podcast
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388

----

You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com

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2009-03-02T01:00:00.001-05:00

spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0005

media files:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0005.m4a

YouTube -> .Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

Cross-promo with Pauwwow.com

----

Intro

Its midterms which means don't expect too much.

I got to prepare for a public speaking class and cram stuff into my head and its not as easy as it once was.

---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731

Thesis:

As we get older, our memory changes.

Both the storage and the retrieval of memories.

It probably has something to do with the hippocampus as it lapses into senescence.

---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

Synthesis:

Storage of memories is something that happens when the hippocampus detects the need to shift impulses from short term process memory to long term structural memory.

Don't ask me what, when, where, how or or why.

There's easily a couple of dozen doctoral dissertations and a few Nobel prizes awaiting whoever solves those puzzles.

The indexing mechanism seems to to be as close to holographic as we can get but the actual quality of the memory seems to degrade over time.

Oh, the problems with trying to do the same things, the same feats of monastic memorization that used to come so easily when I was young,

I still have crud in my head from when I was a kid.

The buildings I used to play in, the building I used to read comic books in, the buildings I used to have sodas in are no longer standing but I still recall the pattern of the tile floor on the way from the front door to the left side of the store where they kept the comic books.

I sill have stored memories of going from our balcony to the next one where my friend lived without touching the ground, two stories below. And the guy died years ago.

---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/

Retrieval is yet another area which on an old fashioned map would be labeled "terror incognita".

The indexing mechanisms which enable the incredible feats of remembering the dusty, bleached wood look of the board I used to stretch across the space between balconies al those years ago, must be interfering with my adding new memories at some point.

And that's why you're getting an abridged version of the show.

The crap I have to get into my head in fact runs counter to the ways I learned to cope with being a software developer, and a testing manager.

I have in fact learned to scan and I read by exception.

Things don't stick to my conscious unless they're "NOT" what I'm expecting to see and read.

---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/

Conclusion:

Oh my achin' head.

----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I might acknowledge receipt of your emails but don't expect intelligent responses for a while.

This episode featured the following music:

---- "Healin Hands" by: "The Coggs" http://www.thecoggs.com/

---- "Healing Ground" by: "Wishbone Ash" http://www.eaglerockent.com/eaglerockUSA/media_detail.php?media_id=731

---- "Made To Heal" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

---- "Heal" by: "David Martinez" http://www.davidmartinezmusic.com/

---- "Love Crash Heal" by: "SOULAR" http://www.soular.us/

----"Heal This World" by: "Pato Banton" http://www.patobanton.com/

wspc_P34kO1l_0012

2009-02-27T01:00:00.018-05:00

wspc_P34kO1l_0012

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Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
..

Never let on that you know what's coming.

---- "Magic GB Jazz" by: "AjT" http://beemp3.com/index.php?q=Album+de+Alain&st=album

Thesis:

This is a speech meant to persuade.

Although that implies that there would be some mode of thought that might imply some debate which would imply that I might wrong about the stance I took.

I seriously doubt that there can be any such error because I am reacting to any discoveries and adapting in kind, but not in direction, to any new facts which arise.

I am not going to try to persuade of the correctness of my approach since I took the only approach that I saw as solving the most problems, including some that weren't anticipated in the least by the people who originally informed my own opinions about peak oil.

I have also drawn from my own experience. as well as the fractional ones evinced by the same people I have been studying.

Unlike most debaters and most debates, I am the first to admit that things are not black or white.

Heck, that aren't even gray. I'm overseeing over the construction of a rainbow.

Inductive reasoning, wherein I acquire facts and opinions in order to generate something more generic from the specifics, is tightly coupled with deductive reasoning, wherein I am attempting to test the rules as revealed to me in the first place.

I do these kinds of reasoning in order to come up with a suitable yet sufficiently open-ended kind of syllogism, or logical appeal, to solve the conundrums raised by peak oil. ([Greek: συλλογισμός — "conclusion," "inference"], [usually the categorical syllogism)] which can form a kind of logical argument in which one proposition [the conclusion] is inferred from two others [the premises] of a certain form. Thank Wikipedia for the actual definition: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism ])

I am now well aware of the 256 rules for crafting syllogisms. (Many of which don't apply here.)

Of course, I am "not" constructing any syllogisms because they are too fractional and would require a level of problem decomposition too fine to be useful at this stage.

In that respect I am actively guilty of treading on the logic of my argument in the same way that I always accused database analyst of always mashing together separate and distinct objects together instead of respecting the articulations presented by the inter-object relationships. "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa..."

---- "Frogmouth" by: Bift http://amiestreet.com/music/bift/bift/frogmouth

Synthesis:

I achieved my understanding of peak oil by thinking of it not as a thing, or even as a series of things, of "if then" rules, but by thinking of it as a process, more specifically as a mathematical function of two intersecting curves.

The arguments for and against peak oil are illusory. They refer to specific instances none of which argue for or against peak oil but instead refer to degrees of the event of peak oil.

Peak oil consists of two intersecting curves, one of demand and the other one of supply.

The game of peak oil consists of reacting properly to the motion of the curves along the horizontal axis of oil and the vertical axis of price, and to the motion of their point of intersection which is the price point and its also where demand creation and demand destruction meet.

There's nothing to argue with. Its just two horizontally moving curves, one high-x sloping down to low-x and the other one low-x climbing up to high-x.

Like "Foghorn Leghorn"[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn ] once famously said, "I say, I say ... you can argue with me son, but you cain't argue with mathematics."

Now the implications of the motion of the two curves are the rapidly rising and falling price of oil, and the steady trend upwards as supplies fall over the next century, world-wide.

Guys, remember taking your date out in your jalopy telling the gas jockey to "fill her up" while holding your arm over the roof line, out of eye shot of your date, and holding up one finger per dollar you actually wanted him to pour into the tank.

Of course not. You're probably all too young.

Since the seventies, its been a pose with both hands held up in supplication, tendering your wallet to the one armed bandit at the pump.

Some horizontal slides of the demand curve have never slid back to the position they originally held.

What's fun is that as supply destruction takes hold, just by OPEC withholding their oil, before the demand can react to the new equilibrium, the price at the pump jumps up vertiginously.

(Remember the summer of 2008, with $4.00+ price at the pump. Its got to do with the lag time between supply pricing and demand adjustments. Its even out of the hands of OPEC. The price went up immediately because the oil companies weren't going to do "you" any favors. OPEC upped the supply and even dropped their price but it takes even longer for the greed to dissipate. They weren't going to benefit by charging you less, now were they?)

So what do we have left to disagree about?

What direction we want the avalanche to fall? (Yeah ... You stand there... You wait... You get buried... I'm running, Jack. With my cane I need to take a good long time 'cause I'm not interested in playing "Frosty The Snowman.")

---- "Gunslinger" by: "Danny Weis" http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Danny-Weis/dp/B000CA91D0

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "If I Had One Wish" by: "DJ Suicide" http://www.crossphade.com/press.html

Synthesis Part Deux

As I asked before: "What have got left to disagree about?"

The shape of the world that will emerge from this lubricious debacle is up to us, entirely up to us.

If we do nothing things are going to change anyway and I can bet you that we won't like the change, because, like the Red Queen said, "It takes all the running I can do to stay in the same place."

So we're going to face a challenge.

How can we face it with the minimum amount of effort for the maximum benefit. Or we can be bull headed and suddenly discover that there's only three hundred and sixty million of us and there are nineteen times as many people competing for oil.

Oh and by the way we can forget about buying oil from Venezuela. The Chinese already have dibs on it. While we weren't looking, they've been turning all the foreign assets and debt that we've been forcing on them into hard currency and buying everything all over the planet with our own fiscal instruments.

Was Wal*Mart good for America?

Not only did we decimate our own production capacity by off-shoring everything, not only did we wreck our commercial infrastructure by building these huge soulless identical box stores where we all bought the same identical crap no matter what, but we sent all of that money to Asia to do it.

Now they hold so much of our debt that we've basically screwed the pooch.

If we're stupid enough not to get off the barrel, we can look forward to paying much, much more for our oil.

I figure we've got fifty years before we're hoisting a glass of "Penzoil" [ http://www.pennzoil.com/ ] like it was a $160,000, in 1985 dollars, bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux. [ http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html ]

Ok. We are idiots. We have not been paying attention and ignored that silky sound of sharpened tempered metal slicing into our own throats.

The choice is do we smarten up and pull back from oil now or does our collective head fall into the bloody basket.

Personally, it will happen on such a time scale that I don't have to care.

I have no issue and I have nothing riding on tomorrow.

The question is not mine, but its "yours."

Are you going to get off of oil nicely, with sure, measured steps, or will get your daughters' tubes tied and make your sons' into castrati.

---- "Last Tango In NYC" by: "The Four Bags" http://amiestreet.com/music/the-four-bags/offshore/last-tango-in-nyc

Conclusion:

The world is not nice, not fair, not gentle.

It makes mince meat out of the complacent.

Don't be complacent.

Now, how can we get ourselves out of this situation?

That is the thesis of the next speech.

---- "The Rosochacha" by: "Greg Federico" http://cdbaby.com/cd/gregfederico2

Outro

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And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

I've stopped asking for your feedback, because I really don't want it.

Like the show? Listen.

Don't like the show, then what are you wasting your time here for?

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0033

2009-02-25T01:00:00.002-05:00

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This is episode 33

I'm adopting this first song as my own marching song for better mental health.

Sometimes I feel that "A Change Would Do You Good" (by "Sheryl Crow",) http://www.sherylcrow.com/

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

----

I just love the line "Hello its me, I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me, just leave me alone."

Goes well with this evening's theme: "Tender Moments".

Now "Adelante La Musica"

----

This episode featured the following music:

"A Change Would Do You Good" by: "Sheryl Crow" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden" by: "Frederick Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Gadfly, Opus 97: Romance" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Romance for Flute in D-flat Major, Opus 37" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Romeo and Juliet,Suite No.1, Opus 64 A: Balcony Scene" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Sospiri, Opus 70 by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Fourteen Songs, Opus 34, No.14: Vocalise" by: "Sergei Rachmaninov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Fantaisie-impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Opus 66" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Don Quixote, Opus 35: Dialogue Between the Knight and Servant" by: "Richard Strauss" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Don Giovanni K527: Là ci darem la mano" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPv C's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!

2009-02-23T01:00:00.013-05:00

msb-0351 Damn I'm out of control ANGRY!

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

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Feedback comes first, so...

There is not much.

I'm afraid I have been neglecting to post on your blogs, but my wife came upon an entry on "BlindBeard's MS blog" [ http://blindbeardsmsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20%25%5E%23%24*%20SSA ] that moved me to write a response to her old post.

I really feel her pain.

I am becoming possessed by a generalized feeling of anger. (When it gets to rage, get the fuck away for me as far and fast as your legs will carry you or your wheel chair can roll you.)

Part of me knows that it does no good to rail against the situation, but another part of me wants to shake the fucking life out of the idiot lawyers and judges who sit on the SSI's bench, sticking their legs out to trip up the unwary cripple.

What the fuck kind of people are these?

No wonder Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."

I have never met a bunch of people, and I use the term people very loosely, more deserving of death by strangulation, after I have had the very great pleasure of flailing the skin from their bones.

"
You blocks!
You stones!
You worse than senseless things!"

The worst part is that I "know" that its not the hiring managers' fault.

I never get past HR because I "might", not "do" mind, just "might", need medical care and that would send everybody's premiums up.

So they go the next candidate on the list after making some non-discrimitory noises...

This country needs a good dose of smelling salts and to get their heads out of Richard M. Nixon's dead ass.

This country needs single payer universal health care "not" on any employers tab.

Oh my "gods!"

I need some "Hariprasad Chaurasia" [ http://www.hariprasadchaurasia.com/ ] to calm down.

I'll be back in half an hour after some meditation and some breathing exercises.

I am boiling in a maelstrom of anger and I'm the heat that's causing it to boil.

---- "My Baby Done Hurt Me" by: "Aux and Big Mike" http://tonewheelorchestra.tripod.com/hub/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "I Know You Are Hurting" byL: "Panda Kopanda" http://www.pandakopanda.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I am not even bothering anymore.

These shows are my gift to you.

Enjoy my demented rantings.

---- "Love Hurts from the Musical Saint Peters Umbrella" by:"Wright and Hudson" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=5195

"Thesis:"

I'll be going to the IBS (Intercollegiate Broadcasting System) conference on March 6th, 7th and 8th.

It should be interesting.

Apart from the fact that every other conference conference I have ever attended posted their schedule on a grid with the rooms on one axis and time on the other axis, which made much easier to see what was going to be where when.

Whine whine, bitch, bitch, complain, complain.

---- "It Still Hurts" by: "Jeff McMullen" http://www.myspace.com/jeffmcmullen

"Synthesis:"

Attending conferences used to be one of my favoritest ways of passing some time away from home and office, pretending that I was working while pressing the flesh, schmoozing and boozing.

I have attended many conferences related to my old obsession of programming, object-oriented programming and other techie things.

I used to enjoy the feeling of being a room full of other tech gurus (well the first day, the following morning it was always a bit rougher getting up any enthusiasm until after a "Bloody" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) ] and the third cup of coffee...)

Still it was a lot of fun going away to conferences and trying to come home with as much swag as we could carry.

Linux conferences were always good for a year's supply of T-Shirts.

Smalltalk conferences weren't as good for the wardrobe but I used to make all sorts of contacts and meet old friends from prior conferences.

Sometimes the conferences were paid for by my publishers. That was sweet.

If I could get my ass there, they'd pay for my attendance.

That was specially true if I was on any panels. (But I rarely was. [I'd never been one for the politicking and maintaining the relationships required to appear as a regular on the conference circuit. {Its too much work and I would rather have been doing something else. (I always got along better with the equipment than with the people using the equipment. [What do you think? Clinical Aspergers' { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_syndrome } or what?])}])

---- "Truth Hurts" by: "Lisa Redford" http://www.lisaredford.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its never easy to shake an obsession.

I know because I am an obsessive S.O.B.

At least I have learned how to let go and ... move on.

---- "Hurting is to Blame demo" by: "boy novice" http://bnss.podshow.com/

Outro

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2009-02-23T01:00:00.000-05:00

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "We Share Our Mothers' Health (Radio Edit) (Single)" by: "The Knife" http://www.last.fm/music/The+Knife

We got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

----

Intro

Well, I guess my prospective guest didn't want to be interviewed.

That's okay. Some people want to stay quiet. Some people are intimidated by the the thought of speaking into a microphone.

That's another kind of handicap, one as visible as high blood pressure and just as debilitating.

Its a form of self censorship when its not warranted.

We'll just go on, as we always do, leaning on our crutches, our canes or wheeling on by.

---- "I am Canadian" by "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://www.deadtroll.com/

Thesis:

Coming from Canada as I do gives me a different perspective on the issue of health care.

Why on earth is the United States asking employers to shoulder the burden of health care?

This is a specially glaring hypocrisy in the face of how the United States is treating its military personel.

Apart from particularly glaring aberrations at Walter Reed medical center, during the reign of "Bush the Younger", when out of sight was out of mind and not out of pocket, the people of the United States treat their military very well.

---- "Zhong Guo Ren Min Jie Fang Jun Jin Xing Qu (Marching Song Of China Military)" by: "China Military Philharmonic Society"

Synthesis:

Health care is particularly poorly served the moment you really need it.

When you really need it, you are likely to be at least temporarily unemployable (and, quite likely, unemployed.)

Most likely, through some accident or infection, you are taken out of the work force and are put at the mercy of people without any mercy.

I refer to the accountants who can look at their balance sheets, look at you, and not see any difference.

While I acknowledge the need for accountancy, I don't believe that they should ever be put in charge of anything.

The current multi-trillion dollar banking debacle and fiscal melt down was the result of people who knew the cost of everything but the value of nothing.

And "we're" left holding the nothing.

---- "Holding Nothing" by: "noel" http://bitmunk.com/media/6425677

Imagine you're working for somebody and you come up with a way to stop having to pay for a growing problem.

You can rightly figure that getting that off the books will get you a bonus.

Health care is a growing problem and by getting rid of the source of the problem, all these sick people, you can save your company huge sums every year.

I mean, you're a company, not a charitable institution, so why should you as a company be expected to pay for all these sick people.

So you look for loop-holes, hire them under different rules, anything so you're not stuck with their health care tab.

Never mind that the current health policy system was started as a kind of Ponzi scheme [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme ] started by Nixon to save his political butt, (I mean, people were dying in the street after having had to burn through their life savings, [The more life savings, the longer people were able to delay the inevitable impoverishment, until it became terminal, {"viz:" you died in the street because you were broke. (The seventies were an ugly and hazardous time in America, I would refer you to Kent State for an example of how dangerous it, and Nixon, really was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings].)}])

New policy adherents would subsidize the costs of taking care of the the current policy holders while the insurance salesmen pocketed the money. (Sort of like Bernard Madhoff paid his dividends. [Hey! It worked fine, until people needed the money and he didn't have it. Given the quality SEC's oversight, "quid custodiet ipso custodes", its the only reason he got caught, {but, in retrospect, it was inevitable, wasn't it?}])

---- "Four Dead In Ohio" by: Four Dead In Ohio" http://www.csny.com/

Conclusion:

The current health-don't-care system has features reminiscent of, and is administered like, a huge Ponzi scheme.

Money goes in, profits are pocketed and as little money as the insurer can get away with paying without causing an insurrection goes to actually pay for health care.

The money is being paid by employers, people who aren't really liable and aren't likely to suffer if they shirk their responsibility (In fact, they're likely to profit from doing so.)

So it goes back to the same area of social responsibility.

Is the United States grown up enough to take care of its sick?

Or is it going to become the only developed nation on the planet which trips over the dead and dying naked bodies of its citizens in the street?

The jury is still out.

---- "Jury's Out" by: '' Dave Nevling" http://www.davenevling.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-02-20T01:00:00.005-05:00

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Gas Prices, Gas Gouging, Peak Oil, Elasticity, Supply Demand
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The Smashing Pumkins "Zero"

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Never let on that you know what's coming.

---- "Saved by Zero" by: "Fixx" http://www.thefixx.com/

Thesis:

While I intend to concentrate this audio column on "dealing" with society as it finds a new equilibrium in an energy impoverished landscape, I should point you to some resources for information about peak oil.

There are books, blogs, mailing lists, podcasts, movies which can serve to persuade you that the world as we know it "is" coming to an end. All of these information resources will do that and more.

Mind you, I took a longer perspective and since we'll take about 250 years to go through all the oil (and after 150 years we're about halfway through all the oil there is, [but there's going to be a whole lot more people after the shrinking puddle of oil that's left,]) I figured that we weren't going to disappear gently into that long goodnight quite so easily as that.

Some distopians would have you believe in a "Mad Max" scenario, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max ] others would point to "Mullah Omar and his merry bunch of murderers" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Omar ] as the way that things were going to go down, but that's just such a stupid waste that I can just dispense with it.

We aren't going to suddenly forget how to read or write and we aren't going to all become microcephalic imbeciles overnight.

---- "Return To Zero" by: "TAPKAE" http://tapkae.com/blog/

Synthesis:

This must perforce be a recapitulation of my own journey to awareness.

It all started with some rumblings I'd heard about from an accountant regarding long term investing and why 30 years was the longest term they gave for depreciating assets.

From that thoroughly dull and bo-o-ring introduction to the subject came the realization that John D. Rockerfeller had made all of his fortune exploiting the oil in Pennsylvania and then Texas/Oklahoma. (Standard Oil lasted until 1920 before it got broken up because ol' John D. was a ruthess bastard and ran his business like it too...)

Unlike the causes of the First World War, which had to do European marketing rights for Silesian pigs, "I kid you not," the second world war happened mostly over oil.

And the United States had a lot of it and nobody else did. But that didn't last long. War burns through a few billion barrels of the stuff.

The British had always enjoyed screwing with the boundaries of countries within their possessions. If things were running left to right, they set the national borders up and down.

Like they did to the Turks remnants of the Ottaman Empire, the Kurds, the Sunni, the Shiaa in Mesopotmia (which covered Turkey, Iraq and Iran,), the factions in India (which took an extremely nasty, bloody civil war to partition themselves into Pakistan, India and Bangladesh,) Afghanistan, which is at best a loose amalgam or warring tribal areas, and the pattern is repeated all over Africa and in the Pacific.).

After the second world war, the United States and Great Britain had deposed the rightfully elected but intelligent, left-leaning "Mohammad Mosaddeq" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddeq ] in 1953, the year I was born, in order to put up the puppet potentate known as "Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi ] so Aramco could get at the oil reserves in the middle, I hadn't heard bugger all about anybody extracting any oil out of Pennsylvania ground.

That was because it was cheaper to suck it out of the sand in Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and ship it all those thousands of miles in the largest ships ever built that to try to suck any more oil out of Pensylvania.

Then "M. K. Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] working for Shell Oil in Texas made some predictions aqbout when he'd be able to retire. He did some "back of the envelope" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-of-the-envelope_calculation ] and came up with a peak oil for Texas in 1972.

So if you're wondering why we're supporting Israel and Saudi Arabia, fighting in Iraq, and paying pennies on the dollar to keep the Nigerians government as corrupt as it is, its because of access to oil.

That lack of oil is the reason we don't give a crap about Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Tsvangirai, a starving populace or an economy in absolute free fall with the Zimbabwean dollar being backed by Mugabe's fillings.

US citizens might make some righteous noises but, on the face of the actions the American government takes throughout the world, we aren't very nice, and therefore, we aren't very popular.

---- "Glass" by: "???" http://???.html

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "A Moment In The Glass" by: "Lo-Fez Beagle Chowder" http://eukt.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1454

Synthesis Part Deux

So now that you understand who's what, what's what, where's what, when's what and why's what, how about some other sources so you can compare with the other nuts out there who are still at the "Chicken Little" stage of discovery.

Most of the sources are easily found online. (When you have something this spectacularly, sensationally scary you want to be heard.)

The problem is that peak oil is an economic fact. Its basically just a story of commodity depletion and the turn over of the economy as it adjusts to the new reality.

The economy has done this for thousands of years, through every supposed revolution in energy source, from canine, to bovine, to equine, to avian, to cetacian, to petroleum, to hydrolic, to hydro-electric, to electric, to nuclear, to termo-nuclear from afar a.k.a. solar.

We have gone through all sorts of "revolutions" and at a meta-level they have all led to that most dreaded thing in the human condition: change.

Google knows all so go and google "peak oil".

Don't worry about the debunkers.

They're just arguing about the actual timing,

Or worse, they're saying that the world is never going to run out of oil and denying the evidence and the lessons that came from Pennsylvania, Texas, Prudoe Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea oil fields, the Western US continental shelf, Venezuala, Nigeria, Iran and Iraq.

---- "Koyaanisqatsi" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi

Conclusion:

So you've just been exposed to some more information about peak oil from the soothsayers of suffering, the diviners of doom, the predictors of pain, the dismal augurers.

No wonder I don't want to go there.

Besides we have about a hundred years to affetuate the changes we need to enact to make the world a livable place without using any oil.

In order to do it right, we need to start now, but we can take baby stept, dudes and dudettes, baby steps.

We can make mistakes and correct them as we go, rather than hurtling full speed towards either a brick wall or a precipice.

---- "Organic" by: "Philip Glass Ensemble" http://www.last.fm/music/Philip+Glass/_/Koyaanisqatsi

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-02-18T01:00:00.001-05:00

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YouTube -> Rush - Tom Sawyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA

This is episode 32

In yet another example of the perversity of the human spirit here is "Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by "Guy Lombardo"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is "In Praise".

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition" by: "Guy Lombardo" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Op. 52/6, D 839, "Ave Maria" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Stabat Matar: Cujus animam" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Ave verum corpus K618" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Requiem, Opus 48: Pie Jesu" by: "Gabriel Fauré" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Cantata BWV80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Chorale)" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Gloria V589: Laudamus te" by: "Antonio Vivaldi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Miserere: Psalm 51" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Requiem: Libera me (Excerpt)" by: "Giuseppe Verdi" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Exsultate, jubilate K165/158A" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite 6 E Major, BWV 817" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-02-13T01:00:00.001-05:00

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Here it is, February 13th, almost St. Valentine's and I'm supposed to tell you that the way of life you know and cherish is kicking its own ass to the curb?

I don't think so...

Here's some music for your raging hormones...

---- "People are still having sex" by: "La Tour" http://www.discogs.com/LaTour-People-Are-Still-Having-Sex/release/177970

Thesis:

Peak Oil is a stretch, an arc, on a curve when we go from being an oil rich planet to being an oil poor planet. (More curves intersecting curves again, oil discovery, oil production, oil extraction prices going above oil sale falling below)

At the risk of seeming flip about it, "This is not a risk, its an opportunity".

Yes we're going to see a lot of changes and change always has its dogmatic enemies. (Sorry folks but as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, change will happen. Nothing lasts forever. Deal with it.)

The YouTube video which accompanies these posts is alarming and a bit of a bummer because it has to be. The word is not universally out there.

But you shouldn't be "that" alarmed about it.

We have plenty of time to start ducking the shovel that's swinging at our collective face.

---- "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" by: "Ugly" http://www.myspace.com/uglyamerica

Synthesis:

The best way to dodge a bullet is not to be in its path in the first place. That's simple physics.

However, this isn't about dodging bullets, avoiding shovels to the face, or even trying to juggle chain saws.

Its about seeing things and reacting intelligently.

My intended audience is all made up of college students. And at a Catholic private college, no less. You were all smart enough to get here.

You are probably going to be smart enough to see the writing on the wall (a scrawled oily smear saying "I'm dead and I was killed by... uh... uh.. [drops like a sack of potatoes.])

Coming from the eastern side of Canada and the United States, as I do I'm big on public transit. In Weisbaden, Germany I didn't need a car at all. I took their buses everywhere,

I'm even bigger on no transit at all.

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Here's a question for you.

What form of transportation carries more passengers that all of the other form combined, planes, trains, buses and automobiles, in near perfect safety and with zero CO2 emissions?

The answer?

The elevator.

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The biggest problem with trying to use an elevator comes from the fact that the holes are all in a straight line up and down.

Imagine if you could go sideways?

You not only punch in your floor (vertical destination) but your site (x & y horizontal destination.)

For most things, you'd never need to sit down so we just provided hand holds for lateral shifts.

Imagine being in a big building. A really big building. A friggin' humongous building.

Imagine you're on the "street level" of the Petronas Towers but instead of two huge cylinders for living spaces, there's like fifty of them, and instead of one sky bridge about half-way up, there's like twenty all shuttling elevator cages around up and down and across on mag-lev tracks with "film cog" carriers.

We already know how to build Petronas towers.

We already know how to build cog railway cars.

We already know how to program systems to handle elevator cars.

We already know how to build all of this zero emission stuff.

We've just never attempted it at the proper scale ... yet.

Okay, just so you know. I come from Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Its frigin' COLD in the winter time in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Like for a week in February it hovers around forty degrees below zero. That's friggin' cold.

Did you know that you could live on the south shore of the St. Lawrence river, get to work down town, across the river, go see a friend for supper in the north end of the city and get back home in the worst weather, (when its a blizzard outside or when its too cold to snow,) without even needing a woolen sweater?

The streets are deserted because of "Le Metro" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro ] which whisks almost a million people between work and home underground.

If you live somewhere with direct access to the Metro, you look at ol' man winter through the windows of a "brasserie" and never get cold and never get your shoes wet with slush.

And it the same with the hottest days of summer. We could ignore the weather...

Montréal is a nascent archology.

So I'm just saying that the system has already been proven to work.

---- "Jungle Juice" by: "All Crazy" http://www.myspace.com/allcrazyphilly

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "Turn Me On" by: "Valentino Casanova" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=3cP&q=%22Turn+Me+On%22+by%3A+%22Valentino+Casanova%22&btnG=Search

Synthesis

I'm not one for whining and bitching.

I'm not one for moaning and groaning.

I'm already too old for peak oil to do more to me that screw up my retirement, if I had any left after the financial melt down killed off my potential clients , took care of my retirement money and screwed over me but good. [Like the old Chinese curse says, I'm living in interesting times.])

So what can I do right now? And what can I see in the future as a way of possibly helping myself? And you too?

Right now, I'm getting rid of my car. Hey I can actually do it. I live within hobblng distance of public transit. In New York City and environs, owning a car actually detracts from your mobility.

If you don't live the same way, you'll have to move wont you.

I'm not going to sugar-coat it.

Forget about owning your own cars unless they're electric. Forget about needing cars too when you can take an elevator/people mover anywhere you'll need to go.

Forget living in the suburbs unless you are independently wealthy.

But there are plenty of ways we can live together, but apart, in archologies.

The farming too can be done in climate controlled conditions. No more worrying about the rains being late or coming too often. No more worrying about how to get the produce picked, or to get it to to market.

---- "Sexy Noises Turn Me On" by: "Salt-N-Pepa" http://www.saltunrapped.com/

Conclusion:

Montréal is an example, a starting point, showing us what is possible already.

Its got lots of problems that it inherits from its older infrastructure, but its a mile post.

Now lets think big, really big, and really modern.

(That should get the architects really interested. Build an archology and name it after yourself.)

---- "I'm Too Sexy" by: "Right Said Fred" http://www.rightsaidfred.com/

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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And we're ending off with something originally composed by "Fats Waller" ( http://www.muziekweb.nl/shared/cat/ti/index.php?tnr=JDX1086 ) but I have no idea of where picked up this recording.

---- "Sextette from Lucia" by: "Royal Italian Marine Band (Musical group)"

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2009-02-11T01:00:00.004-05:00

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Direct link to the episode:

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Video Links

YouTube -> Tsugaru Shamisen 'n Tuvan Throat Singing
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This is episode 31

I've always had a slightly evil slant on the stories people tell each other.

Its called bullshit and it deserves to be shoveled into a pile and set afire.

I was specially struck by "Virginia Woolf" in "A Room of One's Own"making the point that if Shakespeare had had a sister, it wouldn't have mattered if she'd been better than he was, she'd never have got a word in edge-wise.

That's why I've always loved "Siobahn Fahey" who sings divinely on "You're History" by: "Shakespeare's Sister" http://www.shakespearssister.co.uk/

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is a "String Serenade".

And I have an idea on how to close out this evening's show. Heh heh.

(If you're getting the show via the web, your browser's letting you in one the joke and if you're catching the show via iTunes, look at the end of the chapters list. :-)

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"You're History" by: "Shakespeare's Sister" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in C Major, Opus 48: Waltz" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Sonata in A Major: Fourth Movement" by: "César Franck" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Concerto No.1 in E-flat Major: Third Movement" by: "Niccolò Paganini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Concerto in G Major K216: Second Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade, Opus 6: First Movement" by: "Josef Suk" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Andante festivo" by: "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Opus 28" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in E Major, Opus 22: Fifth Movement" by: "Antonin Dvorák" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"A Demonstration Of Sygyt And Kargyraa"" by: "Shaktar Shulban" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

The Disability Show 0003

2009-02-09T01:00:00.005-05:00

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Walking On Broken Glass" by: "Annie Lennox"

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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Intro

I have noticed, when I can look up from the ground when getting around this campus, that there are several other disabled students and that they are negotiating the campus with varying degrees of difficulty.

They aren't much helped by the architecture of the place, which is a mish-mash of donated buildings built in an age when the disabled were at best ignored and at shut out of public view.

---- "Walking The Dog" by "George and Ira Gershwin"

Thesis:

This show concerns one delightful young woman I met while we were both a bit winded from making our way up the stairs to the third floor in "McDermott Hall" (and we were a bit winded from the exertion, not because we're fat, though that is another kind of disability, [the young lady in question is "Runway Model Thin" and would be the envy of any of the geeks I have known over the years to drape over their arms {They would pass out at the thought of her actually being "in" their arms. ("In your dreams 'Pipe Stem' ... In your friggin' wet, little dreams.")}])

I can't help but wonder at how magnanimous she feels towards the architects of this place, the dudes who simply ignored the mobility needs of five percent of the population, not out of malevolence, (or at least, I "hope" not out of malevolence,) but out of sheer "never look up from their drawing board" ignorance.

(Can you smell the theme of next weeks' show by now?)

---- "Walking My Baby Back Home" by: "Nat King Cole"

Synthesis:

I find that the biggest problems in architecture can always be pointed to by ignorance.

Nobody knew about frequency of oscillation so the "Tacoma Narrows Bridge" swayed in the wind and went down like a "ribbon on a stick" held by a rhythmic dancer, who'd just taken a bullet for the team.

And this was in nineteen forty folks.

We're not talking about our stupid old ancestors building cathedrals in the Middle Ages here; back when the height of construction technology was the flying butress.

We're talking about unintended consequences of structural members in motion. The kind of stuff architects are paid to damn well know about. But they didn't and several million bucks of bridge ended up in the drink.

How about we try to focus the architects' attention way closer to home and get them to stop putting things like elevators in out of the way places, that's when they even realize that nobody, hale or disabled, wants to walk up five stories.

---- "Walking Down China Town" by: "Keenan Baxter" http://www.myspace.com/keenanclassicaljazz

I used to be a student of architecture way back when.

My heroes were people like Le Corbusier (who'se gigantic architecture was so unappealing a place to live that Brasilia was populated against the will of the people living there. They actually preferred living in the shanty towns of the workers who built Brasilia.)

They were people like Mies van Der Rohe, whose Teutonic twist to architecture led to sterile and unlivable places.

I was also quite fond of Robert Venturi and his post-modern style, I. M. Pei, Walter Gropius, Oscar Neimeyer, Eero Saarinen Frank Lloyd Wright, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gio Ponti, Paul Wedlinger, Paul Rudolph, and Mario Ciampi.

Now I'd like to take a sledge hammer to their knees and see how the experience of making their own way through their own monstrosities would affect their ideas of architecture and how it affects pedestrian traffic flow through it.

I bet it would result in a lot of changes.

No more sweeping grand staircases with elevators tacked on as an after though and tucked away like they were ashamed of how shoddy and ill conceived their construction really was.

We can only hope that the experience of crap refits as lip service to the ADA won't be repeated, that is when they're even attempted, like the ridiculous wheel chair lift in the McDermott hall up to the admissions desk and first floor and nowhere else; unlike Hannaberry Hall which is in violation of even the most liberal interpretion of the ADA.

---- "Walking Contradiction" By: "Green Day"

Conclusion:

Like Monty Python once said, "That's the kind of blinkered Philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."

Yes, architects have a lot to answer for. I have rarely met one that even looked up from the guidelines books to see it those guidelines are even applicable or if they are sufficient.

Most of these books deal with floor loads and structural stress limits and only rarely cover things like usability.

I'm going to try to talk her into making an appearance next week.

---- "Design for Living" by: "Flanders and Swann"

Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-02-06T01:00:00.025-05:00

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YouTube ->. .

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---- "Another Day In Paradise" by: "Phil Collins"

Thesis:

This episode is going to be a little, uh, different.

I'm being a lazy so-and-so and combining some classwork with this show / podcast.

Part of this evening's show is going to be an explanatory speech on PeakOil.

I know, I know, that's what we had with the first seven weeks of shows, the last half of last term, fall 2008.

I am doing this to kill two birds with one boulder.

So let's all watch as "birdie go bye bye,"

---- "My Blue Heaven" by: "Bob Crosby"

Synthesis:

This is an expository speech, wherein I reveal something to"inform" the listeners, as opposed to a suppository speech, wherein I just pull fiction, masquerading as fact, right out of my ass.

So sit back and for the next five to seven minutes let my palaver lull you into complacency.

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How many of you know where oil comes from?

We're not talking geographically, we're not talking geo-politically, we're talking physically.

It doesn't come from the gas station either.

Oil comes from the ground.

There is some nonsense about it all being from fossil plant matter that died millions of years ago and oil is the result of bio-mass putrefaction. Which works fine until you realize that some of the oil exists in large pockets under the ocean and there is no way that plants lived anywhere near there in billions of years.

There is also some nonsense about it being produced (and I really mean excreted,) by anaerobic bacteria which live everywhere inside the crust of the earth and which we have recently discovered. (See, there are new things under the sun, way under the sun. The major part of the planet's bio mass was unsuspected. [ http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/1027_Bacteria_Found_Thriving_Deep.html ])

It doesn't really matter.

The source is immaterial. Its a slow process (in fact if you believe in actual fossil fuels, it has stopped.)

What matters is that we've been using up to sixty million barrels of the stuff a day, and, barring the current, hopefully temporary, economic slowdown, we're going to use it up until its all gone.

We're right now at an inflection point: Peak Oil, which means that we're about half-way through all the oil we've found to date and all of the oil we're going to find.

We started using rock oil, a.k.a. petroleum, in the middle of the eighteen hundreds, when whale oil became extremely expensive and hard to come by.

Made a tycoon out of John D. Rockefeller; after the U.S. Civil War.

Standard Oil, which got so much wealth for ol' John D., got broken up because he was basically an emotionless, egoistical bastard and the company got to big to live.

But the "powers that were" needn't have worried.

There's no oil left in Pennsylvania, is there?

There no oil left in Texas, is there?

Actually, there's no oil left in the continental United States, is there?

There's almost no oil left in the North Sea, is there?

There isn't that much left in Prudhoe bay, is there?

The Catalina coast and the entire Gulf of Mexico is getting depleted enough that the oil companies are looking at the real-estate off the deeper coast of Florida.

The Canadian Tar Sands are still unrecoverable though they're hovering around the break even point.

Oh, there's some oil left out there all right, but its not economically viable; meaning that it costs too much to recover, to pump it out of the ground.

The story is the same in Russia, on the coast lines of Asia, in the ocean bottoms, even in the Middle East.

Its the same ... everywhere.

So we've got us a "situation" on our hands.

"Chicken Little" was right.

The sky "is" falling.

He had help in the voice of "M. King Hubbert" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert ] a research scientist with the Shell Oil research laboratories in Houston Texas, who did some simple math and made a few predictions that have since been borne out.

He saw the oil reserves in Texas and predicted that they were going to peak in the seventies. He saw that every barrel drawn from that point on would be drawn at a bigger cost from a dwindling supply.

Sure enough he was right.

Oil is a finite commodity and suffers from the same problems that all commodities run into.

Their supply runs out.

That is to say that in the immediate term consumption demand curve outstrips production supply curve.

When dealing with natural sources, the species can even go extinct.

The biggest problem facing the dodo was that it was big, fat, flightless and tasty.

This last point is not the problem facing other species, like the "Komodo Dragon."

And tastiness is not the issue.

Utility can be enough to seal a specie's fate.

As surely as the islanders on "Rapa Nui" ran out of trees to use a rollers to move their "Aku Aku" from the quarry in the central peak out to the beaches round the island.

Rather than bitch and moan, whine and complain and run around yelling "The American Way Of Life is under threat," just face facts.

It was a great hundred and fifty years but the oil is becoming prohibitively expensive on the down-side of the peak oil.

It doesn't matter that the extraction technology is still improving. Its an incremental improvement.

It doesn't matter that that there are still pockets of oil being discovered, even though they are getting smaller, deeper, farther and "not" cheaper.

The hunger for energy, although in order not to mix metaphors, I should say "the thirst" for oil is growing as fast as the population did over the last century, going from less than 1 billion to over six and a half billion.

It still takes a woman nine months to give birth regardless of how many women are assigned the task, while it will take the aggregate of humanity only a little more than 16% as long to consume the same amount of oil that mankind consumed during the period of time from 1850 to 1914.

Basically we're all screwed if we try to keep on the same gravy train that the Western World has been on since the end of the First World War.

"Can't do it. No way José. Won't fly."

If that's all you see, you're sure that we're all going to Hell in a hand basket.

Now, I'm upbeat about this and I'll tell you "why" in the next segment.

Here's a foreshadowing of that episode:

"The world we know has been created, in its entirety, since the introduction of oil a hundred and fifty years ago.

Nothing that exists now could even have been imagined then.

The biggest game changer, the mother of all unintended consequences, the internet. born out of a project by the US Military to build a scalable communication system capable of surviving nuclear devastation, couldn't even be imagined back less than fifty years ago.

In another hundred and fifty years, its all going to have to change again... But remember, change is cumulative...

There are no more "buggy whip" makers, but then there is no more need for them. There isn't going to be any need for them in the coming age either."

This is not a problem folks, this is an opportunity.

---- "If I Ever Lose This Heaven" by: "Quincy Jones"

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "Stairway To Heaven" by: "Led Zeppelin"

Conclusion:

So that was my expository speech, wherein I expostulated, exaspiratedly about the execrable human condition that we tend to look at the glass, darkly, when it doesn't matter if its half-full or half-empty, we simply have "got" to stop drinking from it.

The bottom of the glass is visible and the pub is closing.

We're just going to have to find something else to drink, somewhere else.

But then, all of life is change isn't it...

The folks who rail against change are really railing about the fact that they've got to move their butts, possibly exposing their heads, to determine where the next bucks are going to come from.

Guess what?

I don't exactly know either, but its going to be a lot more fun finding that out than it is just sitting here, in the dark, along with all of the other Ethnic Mothers of those old jokes.

Have I succeeded in informing you of the facts (change is inevitable, unavoidable and even predictable,) and of my attitude to them (it can't happen fast enough for me...)

---- "Heaven Must Be Boring" by: "George Hrab"

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

We're going to close off the week with

"HeavensaLie" by: "Lacuna Coil"

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2009-02-04T01:00:00.003-05:00

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Video Links

This is episode 30

I'm getting more comfortable with introducing new music in with the old because there's a lot of music that fits into the mould of classical music without actually being music so old that it was all written and played long before we were born by people we couldn't possibly ever meet.

Take for instance "Myth of Beauty" by: "The Carnies" http://www.myspace.com/thecarnies

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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This evening's theme is Myth & Magic, so cross your fingers and toes, wish on a star, kiss a frog, throw a horse shoe over your shoulder with a pinch of salt and pepper and let's "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Myth of Beauty" by: "The Carnies" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - 7. Arabian Dance" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Danse Macabre, Op. 40" by: "Camille Saint-Saëns" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"El Amor brujo (Ritual Fire Dance)" by: Manuel de Falla" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Violin Sonata in G Minor Third Movement (The Devil's Trill)" by: "Giuseppe Tartini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Magic Flute (Overture)" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Swan Lake, Act II Introduction" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchajkovski" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Planets: Uranus, The Magician" by: "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev))" by: "Modest Mussorgsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

'Alchemy" by: "Mythos" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-02-02T01:00:00.011-05:00

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YouTube -> Dire Straits - Industrial Disease [Sydney -86]
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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Pre-Existing Condition" by: "The Motion Sick" http://www.themotionsick.com/

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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Intro

The first and most important thing in this life is education, but it may not be what you think of as education.

I am casting my little net about, learning things about business models in an age that is internet enabled, (some would say internet disabled, [if not outright obliterated.])

While micro-payments offers a general solution for media, it still encounters difficulties and producer resistance (as opposed to consumer resistance) because of the high transaction charges from financial service providers. (Its a freakin' miracle that Apple was able to negotiate rates as low at they were to keep the cost per tune to merely 99 cents!)

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Coming up this week, the Wednesday Thyme Warp is going to to be about "Myths and Magic".

Also coming up this week, I'm going to have a different take on Peak Oil, because I see it as a great opportunity for America to do what its done best: rise up to a challenge and spit in its eye.

Its not time to wax nostalgic back at some imaginary idyll; its time to look at it with a rising sense of purpose.

That's coming on Friday's show.... In the mean time...

This show is a chance for students at St. Peter's College to both learn about disability, the concepts and the realities of disability, as well as to teach about disability, by exposing the audiences, both on the campuses of St. Peter's College and on the world wide web, to the problems faced by 5% of the population (That's "325,000,000" [three hundred and twenty five million] people, one in twenty people on the planet, alive today, right now, that is the number the W.H.O. [the World Health Organization] estimates fits their definition of disability; points along the continuum from permanently to temporarily and from totally to mildly disabled.)

---- "Sick as a Dog" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Thesis:

Celiac Disease is one of those diseases that can run the gamut from mild to total disability and its currently incurable.

Because of the number of people afflicted (1 in 133 people according to one website [ http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm ]) and the fact that its not deadly, research is being done on it, but not enough to change anything.

Because its not a "popular disease" (meaning its not one spread through sexual contact, ) afflicting less that 1% of the population and not gruesomely terminal, if you've got celiac disease, you're stuck with it.

---- "Sick And Tired" by: "Eric Clapton" http://www.ericclapton.com/

Synthesis:

The same website [ http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm ] has lots of basic information about

* What is celiac disease?
* What are the symptoms of celiac disease?
* Why are celiac disease symptoms so varied?
* What other health problems do people with celiac disease have?
* How common is celiac disease?
* How is celiac disease diagnosed?
* How is celiac disease treated?
* The Gluten-free Diet: Some Examples
* Points to Remember
* Hope through Research
* For More Information

Now my guest it going to try to tackle his own discovery of these points one by one, in four minutes... :-)

Take it way

[...]

---- "MSick" by: "Mark Speckman" http://cdbaby.com/cd/speckman

Conclusion:

Celiac Disease is no joke.

The immune system, (something I'm intimately acquainted with, what with my M.S. that used to try to kill me every 15 years or so, [the immune system]) gets its wires crossed and attacks part of the whole that it should instead be trying to protect,

---- "Sick" by: "Bad Acid" http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/4981/default.html

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Outro

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2009-01-30T01:00:00.002-05:00

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media files:

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YouTube ->

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

---- "Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Thesis:

Peak Oil isn't just a concept or an idea, though it is that, but peak oil is the harbinger of a change that is coming that is going to sweep everything into a great big pile.

As reality changes to accommodate this new elephant in the room, we're going to have to be creative in the options choices we're all going to make.

Peak oil spells gloom and doom for our way of life, but it does not spell gloom and doom for mankind.

Our dependence on oil is a historic aberration which saw enormous changes coming in, and it will see even more enormous changes going out.

We're not going back to an agrarian society since we have seen the population rise beyond what could be supported by the unaided soil. Either we succeed in this endeavor or we're going to have to play at being "Pol Pot" with world-wide "killing fields". (Pol Pot I'll remind you killed merely in person in five in Cambodia with his agrarian reforms. We'd have to kill four persons in five the world over to achieve a sustainable and supportable population using only the techniques which existed pre-oil, or about a mere century-and-a-half ago.

---- "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Synthesis:

So lets deconstruct peak oil as a series of phenomena which correspond to a modification of Mazlow's pyramid.

Man can live

* Without air: four minutes.
* Without water: four days.
* Without food: four weeks.
* Without sex: Forget it!

Okay, on a less facetious form, lets examine the "real" "Mazlo's" pyramid [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs ].

Basic human needs are:

* physiological,
* safety and security,
* love and belonging,
* esteem and
* self-actualization.

Given the fact that we're knocking every blessed thing into a cocked-hat, lets examine the most basic needs, the physiological:

* Food
* Water
* Breathing
* Excretion
* Sleep
* Homeostasis
* Sex

Back to my facetious pyramid.

"Air" will be pretty much in the same supply it is now.

It might even be cleaner for the same reason that foxes have moved back into Detroit. The base state for a post-industrial society is pretty much the same as for a pre-industrial one. Clean air, plenty of sunshine and lots of "critter space".

You will be relieved to hear that "water" will still flow down hill. Hydroelectric dams will still work. (The lubricants for the turbines "will" require some work.)

You will be relieved to hear that water will still evaporate too. (Of course, clouds "will" form where and when they want to, mostly away from the catch basins of the hydroelectric dams.)

The rest is a bit more problematic.

"Food" production currently demands large areas of land. Unfortunately, that also demands large quantities of oil to accomplish some things:

* farming (for fertilizers, pesticides, moving dirt around harrowing, and harvesting.)
* transportation of produce to market,
* transportation of seed to the farm to begin with,
* maintaining markets (though that is the province of anybody from your local green grocer to a huge box store,)
* moving the produce back to your home.

The problems come primarily from three very disturbing facts:

* First we have to, uh, think different.
* Then we have to overcome the distance between the farm and home.
* Lastly we we have problems of un-cooperative weather, un-cooperative soil, and un-cooperative labor conditions on the farms.

The solutions to these require some attitude adjustment on our part and on the part of the nice folks who build our cities.

---- "Little Bird" by: "Annie Lennox" http://www.annielennox.com/

We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

----

We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

---- "100% Pure Love" by: "Crystal Waters" http://www.theoneandonlycrystalwaters.com/

Okay back to urban planning.

We've got to refit and insure that all new construction is mixed industrial, agricultural, residential and retail.

Preferably in the same building!

I gave the order because we need that the construction of our "archologies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology ] be pretty much be in that order.

We have to stop thinking so "cheap and cheesy", slapdash and jury-rigged, and instead start thinking of habitation as things fitting together and complementing each other.

Now that cheap oil and therefore cheap energy are disappearing from the landscape, the things that depend on cheap oil and therefore cheap energy must disappear also.

I am advocating the creation of arcologies not out of some Utopian visions but because its preferable to the distopian visions that come to the mind's when trying to keep the outside out and the inside hermetically sealed against it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, because he was born and lived some of his life before the era of widespread cheap oil, had designed the principles of a dymaxion arcology out of necessity back when the twentieth century was new.

He was trying to solve the problems of sustainability for his time and now, after the oil enabled diversions of two world wars, countless skirmishes, failed regimes, failed implementations of failed political ideas, countless deaths to serve no purpose, failed religions and false prophets, its time we put down the "Kool-Aid" and started back on the path he'd glimpsed "through a glass darkly" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly ] but still more clearly than most of us ever see.

One of the prime principles of his dymaxion philosophy is to extract the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people from the smallest amount of material.

I am not advocating blind acceptance of everything he wrote. The man could have clearly benefitted from some linguistics courses which would have helped him with his need to coin new words.

But the concepts for reforming refitting and creating the new urban arcologies are clearly there.

Imagine living contained in buildings of currently unimaginable size where all of our physical, emotional and spiritual needs can be met, all of our transportation requirements are local.

Imagine living in Dubai ... everywhere.

We'll return to this theme of arcology at several point during upcoming episodes.

---- "Children (Dream Version)" by: "Robert Miles" http://www.robert-miles.com/

Conclusion:

Peak Oil is going to change everything in a wave of innovation or leave us high and dry gasping for breath and grasping at straws stuck in an empty oil barrel.

Its actually going to do both. Some people won't be able to loosen their grasp and will end up holding nothing and burying their children, dead from a millions causes all related to their acceptance of scarcity.

Some people will be able to see that you can only accept things with open hands and will end up owning everything of any value and leave a legacy to a future they can't even imagine.

Some of the innovation that is coming will affect how and where we live and that requires the most open mind of all.

---- "Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba" http://www.morcheeba.co.uk/

Outro

Oh and by the way:

I just want to thank the people who left the nice comments on this blog, sent me email feedback on the podcast of "The Disability Show".

And to my wife who's been chiding me for having thought small all these years, when the need was for exactly this kind of show, "Yes Dear. You were right..."

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2009-01-28T01:00:00.000-05:00

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Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0029.m4a

Video Links
This is episode 29

With apologies to "Bored of the Rings" (1) this week its all about the pastoral squalor one finds outside of the urban area, away from the nascent, semi-arcologies of Jersey City and the other cities huddled in the shadow of New York City, (itself a nascent arcology).

(A ha! Some fore shadowing of this Friday's "Peak Oil" show. [Arcology... Arcology... What the heck is is an arcology? Tune in Friday and find out why it may save your children's and their children's butts.])

In keeping with my habit of stating episodes of this show with, uh, future classics, in sort of the theme of pastoral squalor in here is

"The Drop System" by "Pastora" http://myspace.com/pastoramusic

(1)"Bored of the Rings"is a National Lampoon take on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and probably came out, like the original, way before any of you attending this school were born.

[ http://www.teenink.com/Books/article/1507/Bored-of-the-Rings/ ]

To quote:
"Boggies are an unattractive but annoying people whose numbers have increased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale market. Slow and sullen, and yet dull, they prefer to lead simple lives of pastoral squalor. They don't like machines more complicated than a garotte, a blackjack, or a luger, and they have always been shy of the 'big folk' or 'biggers' as they call us. As a rule they avoid us, except on rare occasions when a hundred or so will get together to dry-gulch a lone farmer or hunter. They seldom exceed three feet in height, but are fully capable of overpowering creatures half their size when they get the drop on them. . . . Their beginnings lie far back in the Good Ole Days when the planet was populated with the kind of colorful creatures you have to drink a quart of Old Overcoat to see nowadays."

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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We've also got some cross promotion going with the web version of St. Peter College's own "Pauw Wow".

The perpetually available and comment capturing web version is "growing on" as opposed to the occasional "Dead Tree" edition which can only capture "a moment in time" for a minority of the news competing for a scarce resource, space with anything else on a fixed number of pages.

As Liebnitz famously once said: "The 'Power of the Press' belongs to those who own one."

But as anyone who can read will attest, the limitations of "that" business model are slowly bleeding to death all of the owners of the "dead tree" press.

The future of the press lies on-line with the internet mixing media according to their appropriateness to whatever is being reported.

From "Twitter" to IM, to e-mail, to FaceBook to Podcasts, to web-radio, to streaming content, to PDFs, to vodcasts, to YouTube, to MP3s, to app mash-ups, to whatever's next, the internet is emerging as the clear winner of the media wars.

So log on to http://pauwwow.com/ and grow with the media.

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The theme this evening is Pastoral scenes.(Pastoral Squalor as I like to refer to it, like scenes of rusted farm equipment in the fields and rusted heaps if the front yards of tumble down barn yard shacks, in desperate need of a coat of paint [or cleansing arson.]

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"The Drop System" by "Pastora" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"The Lark Ascending" by: "Ralph Vaughan Williams" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite Pastorale: Idylle" by: "Emmanuel Chabrier" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Brigg Fair" by: "Percy Grainger" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68, "Pastoral": First Movement" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"English Dances, Set II, Opus 33, No. 1" by: "Malcolm Arnold" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Rosamunde: Entr'acte No. 2" by: "Franz Schubert" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"St. Paul's Suite: Fourth Movement (The Dargason)" by: "Gustav Holst" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Divertimento in D Major K136: Third Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

TheDisabilityShow 0001

2009-01-26T01:00:00.005-05:00

TheDisabilityShow 0001

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

---- "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by: "Green Day" http://www.greenday.com/splash_black.php?accesscheck=%2Flogin_check.php

Intro

This show is a chance for students at St. Peter's College to both learn about disability, the concepts and the realities of disability, as well as to teach about disability, by exposing the audiences, both on the campuses of St. Peter's College and on the world wide web, to the problems faces by 5% of the population (That's "325,000,000" [three hundred and twenty five million] people, one in twenty people on the planet alive today, right now, that the W.H.O. [the World Health Organization] estimates fits their definition of disability.)

---- "Wake me up when this Math Class Ends" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/

Thesis:

As the title of the show might give a hint, we're here to expose people to the, uh, wonderful world of the disabled. (Though the wonder might be limited on one side by "Hunh? What? Why?" and the other side "Oh, give up man. They'll never get it." [I'm just being polite. The epithets that are sometimes applied by both peoples to the ones standing on the other shore are not fit for dissemination.])

Seeing as how this is an institution of higher learning and people have to meet certain eligibility requirements to get here, its a self-selecting kind of elite who get to be students here at St. Peter's.

We represent the plus side of the bell curve as far as IQ goes.

Yet we struggle with the same question of "otherness" that any disabled person faces; that blank stare, that uncomprehending look that says "What do you people want anyway?" not recognizing that what we want is "not to be thought of in that way."

---- "When The World Ends"{ by: "Dave Matthews Band" http://www.davematthewsband.com/

Synthesis:

Actually the introduction to this show touched on one point, (the statistical,) while my thesis touched on one other point, (the existential,) that are two sides of the same coin.

Being one person in twenty yields a formidable number, three hundred and twenty five million people on the aggregate are disabled to some degree spanning the range to having a mild "kink in the armor", to having a "thoroughly bent frame".

The problem is that disease and disability manifest themselves in myriad ways and we, all to human beings, immediately begin to subdivide the concept of disability into the prevalence of each.

Its one thing to know that the prevalence of MS affects in in twelve hundred people, or 0.0833% of the population, or a mere 2.9 million people (see how putting an actual number, as long as its a cognitively grokable one*, puts a volume of people behind a mere statistics,) its another thing to be prepared to deal with the varying degree of disability that MS can bring.

(* Grokable numbers are those related to things we can understand. Otherwise, our imagination fails us and we can't really grok, or holistically comprehend the entirety of the concept. Like drops in an ocean [or even in a bucket,] things get confused into a blur)

---- "Boys & Girls" by "Blur" http://www.blur.co.uk/

We're "all" different and we "all" suffer from and labor under differing degrees of disability.

Some people are not visibly affected by it, as I wasn't for the thirty years from sixteen when my hand writing went to hell and my manual dexterity was shot through with tremors, to my last attack in 1997 when my mobility was affected and I was left using a cane.

My first guest suffers from "Coeliac disease" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celiac_disease ] which while incurable can be controlled by dietary means.

Some people are handicapped as the result of some traumatic injury, some insult to the system which leaves them unable to fully function.

Some, like me, are handicapped as the result of some disease which leves them unable to fully function.

The truth of it is that none of us wanted whatever happened to us to happen, but shit did indeed happen, to us.

But that doesn't mean that we've given up or that we're fit to give up on.

There are some things which can be done which make our lives easier, and incidentally can make everybdy else's lives easier as well. (And I definitely want to adress the PATH system's policies of sticking handicapped ramps and the station's elevator out of the way and in difering places in every accessible station as particularly deserving of my oprobrium, invective and venom.)

---- "Old Friends/Bookends" by: "Simon & Garfunkel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel#External_links

Conclusion:

I hope that this show inspires us through our own example.

Disability is existential and experiential.

We "all" suffer from some delusions of perfection and we sometimes feel shame at not reaching the ideal of physical beauty or functionning.

Its what keep the plastic surgeons employed after all.

For the most part the entire cosmetic industry is entirely fueled by the hopes that whatever deception we weave before the eyes that behold us can last ... long enough. (Ha! As Shakespeare wrote "What fools these mortals be".) [ http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/lord-what-fools-these-mortals ]

The worst part is when the disabled are not accommodated as part of making the traffic flow better for everybody, but are instead shunted aside and forced to be an inconvenienced inconvenient.

---- "Family And Friends" by: "Rob Szabo" http://www.robszabo.com/

Part deux (brings me back, doesn't it.)

I am going to try to bring somebody into the studio with some form of disability every week.

I have some one lined up to speak on Celiac disease.

Just like I have my "bona-fides" with MS, my guest has the same qualification to speak on and about Celiac disease.

We're "not" medical experts, we're the afflicted/affected.

Take it away and ... "educate me" ...

[ I'll get his transcript later ]

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2009-01-21T01:00:00.000-05:00

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 28. This week its all about the Russians.

So I'm starting off with some Russian's of my own. And "nyet, I am not attempting to pronounce it"

Okay "Goryacho" by "Ozonoviy Sloy"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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I'm very busy so lets get on with it.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Goryacho" by: "Ozonoviy Sloy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No.5 in D Minor, Opus 47: 2nd Movement" by: "Dmitri Shostakovich" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"String Quartet No.2 in D Major 3rd Movement (Nocturne)" by: "Alexander Borodin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture" by: "Mikhail Glinka" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Marche Slave, Op. 31" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Russian Easter Festival Overture, Opus 36" by: "Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Alexander Nevsky: Alexander Nevsky's Entry into Pskov" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev" by: "Modest Mussorgsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027

2009-01-14T01:00:00.000-05:00

spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027

Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027.mp3

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027.m4a

Video Links

This is episode 27

The first ThymeWarp of 2009.

But its not the first show I have done for the year.

I started on Monday with an episode appearing on MSBPodcast.com in which I hope to raise everybody's consciousness about disability.

I am going to be writing a word of three about education and the disabled to the PauWow. (Wether they choose to publish it is something else. -)

I hope to have some other disabled students for the last half of the show.

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ThymeWarp is an easy show for me to put together. Wednesday are going to be a snap.

I'll just scrape my iPod for something I figure you'd like for an hour of classical music and put it out on a podcast.

There is no live component to the show. After all, I'm hardly going to feature an interview with one of the many decomposing composers who's music I feature.

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The friday shows are going to be a lot tougher.

I'm dropping the 'book review' portion of "P34k O1l" (those episodes are still available on MSP's Podcast and on iTunes if you want to go back and listen to them, or listen to them again.)

We'll be instead seeing what other people are saying about the phenomenon of peak oil and the changes that running out of oil is bringing about to our economy and to our way of life.

That one is going to require a lot of research and writing. Good thing I'm so freakin' obsessive.

I don't know what's up with my life but I'm feeling pretty jazzy these days so I'm starting off with "Addicted to Oil" by "Mr Tunes"

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

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Here's a proper, honest to goodness, real promo. :-)

Promo_WSPC_PeacockNation2008/12/05

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I'll be picking up the new promos and PSA when I show up in school , uh, earlier today. (You do realize that these shows are pre-recorded. Its actually Tuesday and school starts tomorrow, when I'm due in the studio to play this at 17:00 )

This episode is all about morning mists.

Now "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Addicted to Oil" by: "Mr Tunes" ( http://www.projectopus.com/mrtunes ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Quiet City" by: "Aaron Copland" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Serenade for Strings in E minor, Opus 22: First Movement" by: "Antonín Dvořák" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Holberg Suite, Opus 40: Sarabande" by: "Edvard Grieg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Chanson de matin, Opus 15" by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 11: Second Movement" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Carmen, Suite No. 1: Intermezzo" by: "Georges Bizet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Oh' What A Beautiful Morning" by: "Glenn Miller" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Suite No. 1 in G major: Sarabande" by: "Johann Sebastian Bach" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

"Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 73: Second Movement" by: "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira.

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

msb-0350 A New Beginning.

2009-01-12T01:00:00.015-05:00

msb-0350 A New Beginning.

Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
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Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
..

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

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Feedback comes first, so...

Okay I've been away for a month and people are still downloading the show's episodes. I "must" be filling some form of need out there... What's weird is that people were downloading the ThymeWarp episodes almost as much as the indie music episodes. (Okay maybe half of you were picking up the episodes but there genuinely seems to be some interest, [ though the audiences were different and coming from different URLs. {Neat huh?!?}])

I've been gone for a month and today, I feel good.

I'm using new software to put together the 'casts, "Übercaster" from "Pleasant Software of Offenburg/Germany" [ http://www.pleasantsoftware.com ] as well as doing a version on GarageBand, plus "Transmit" [ http://www.panic.com/transmit/ ] and "OmniOutliner Pro" [ http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/ ] to compare the two and see if there is any benefit to using "Übercaster" apart from using it more 'cast specific interface.

I'm still putting

the text of the casts on "Blogger" [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ],
the text and the audio of the casts on "LibSyn" [ http://msb.libsyn.com/ ]
the whole mess on my "wiki", [actually at http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/TheShows ]
and is referred to from "MSBPodcast.com" [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ].

I'l try this out for a while and let everybody know which is easier to work with.

You should never know which is which by listening, though you will know because some episodes will be repeated and labeled with msb-xxxx-Ü

This week, I will be making changes to the scheduling of this show by getting it on the school roster.

MSBpodcasts will be on Mondays for an hour, along with ThymeWarp which will be on Wednesdays for an hour and P34k O1l which will be on Fridays for an hour.

This also means that I have access to the music schools licence and licencing agreements, (yay I can use "any" music I want,) and access to their equipment when putting together the shows.

I'll also be able to host 'call-ins' and/or 'call-outs' over the phone and/or over skype. "You" can now become an active part of the show.

Being web cast/streamed means immediacy while being podcast means permanence.

Today I'm in a jazzy mood. Since I am covered by the school radio's copyright license, I no longer have to put up with my 'indie only' rules.

---- "Lighten Up Francis" and "Hey Baby" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Siss Boom Bah!" by: "Mocean Worker featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Everything I've been reading, (like "Secrets of Social Media Marketing" by: "Paul Gillin" ISBN: 978-1884956-85-0), is still, and always, geared towards the widget makers of the world; not for the generation of web-o-nauts like Leo Laporte's, Adam Curry's, and me who are starting to get our message out there that podcasts, webcasts and other web 2.x ways of connecting people together.

There are books out there that tell you how to sell your widgets to your first-time or existing customers on-line (that was and is the promise of web 1.0) and that tell you how keep in touch with them (that was and is the promise of web 2.0), though you sometimes have to do "damage control" when you over promise and under deliver.

Books on bloggers and blogging, on podcasts and podcasting, on vidcasts and vidcasting, on wikis, on twitter style IM, on IM, on email, are fine at giving people the "how to's" of the nuts and bolts of point to point communications but they don't help much with something essential.

They don't ever answer the questions related to "How do you get the word out about you and your products out there in the first place?"

How do you find some audience out there who might be interested in whatever you're selling because they're interested in the content of the show.

A well informed public is a joy to behold but for the most part,the educational system does not inform their students about anything but the origins, the early history, of whatever they teach.

Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, St.Thomas of Aquinas et alia may be fine but they don't help in the least with whatever problem you're coping with in this, the modern world.

In this, the modern world, we don't necessarily have the luxury of sitting down and figuring out the best approach to the solution. (There's lots of problems that are way over my head to even define, so never mind finding a solution. Jeesh...)

---- "Tres Tres Chic" by" Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Thesis:"

Over the past three years, I have operated this podcast because it was an opportunity for me to work through my deep and soul-smothering anger at having MS (okay its wasn't the only thing I took very personally, I'm still a bit pissed at some sociopath thinking that it was okay to stage a bit of "Arab Street Theater" in Manhattan and kill about three thousand people, some of which I worked with, and to tear a hole in my sky.)

It has morphed into a wider purpose.

As the broadcast media have imploded fiscally while their content has exploded all over the internet, I have become one of the "early adopters" of the new focused-casting.

---- "Chick a Boom Boom Boom" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Synthesis:"

Since February 2006, episodes of the MSB Podcast have been downloaded, as of this 'cast, over 110,00 times.

That's "downloaded", not just "one my web pages was discovered by accident by somebody looking for Microsoft's B class stocks" (I use separate counters for tracking webpage hits,), but the entire episode was fetched through iTunes, or, far more interestingly, downloaded by somebody actually clicking on it after reading the show notes.

This was an active choice that was made by someone, an MSer or someone who interested in the program.

Okay, its a small community. What else could it be? We MSers only represent 1 in 1,200 or 0.0833% of the general population. Add caregivers plus the occasional visitor and you could get some spikes to occasionally double the figure over time.

There are lots of 'casts which get download numbers which dwarf this.

But there are some communities which this would dwarf.

There are some communities which are so small they only exist as footnotes in some encyclopedia.

From tribal languages with only a few hundred speakers to diseases with only a few hundred sufferers, there are minorities which make us, we MSers, look like a multitude.

I just saw a Barbara Walters special with "Patrick Swayze" on his struggle pancreatic cancer.

Each year, this disease affects about 38,000 people in the United States, usually fatally.

Each year, MS affects many time more people per year, but thankfully not fatally.

But it does point out that Patric Sayze, those afflicted with pancreatic cancer, and the other people afflicted with other rare diseases, are in the same boat as us.

In a world "without" an internet to weave us all together with a fiber-optic glass thread, we are all marooned on separate desert islands, isolated, scared, lonely and, to be blunt about it, dying (, like a Saturday Night Live skit about post-phenomenological philosophy in the Nixon era, [funny "not!"]).

But in a world "with" an internet, the economics of scarcity become replaced by the economics of wealth, of information richness.

"All" share in the discoveries of any.

In the battles with our separate battles with our respective diseases, we can all benefit.

Just like the battles with AIDS, primarily begun after Rock Hudson was struck down with that disease, have yielded, if not a cure, then at least treatments for MS, who knows what "we" might discover that could be of help to Ms. Swayze and other people afflicted with other diseases.

---- "Float" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

"Conclusion:"

Over the past three years, over the past 100+ thousand downloads, I have operated this podcast because it suited my needs.

It has morphed into something with a wider purpose.

I'm staying out here because, I am needed by people who don't know me, or even of me, yet.

---- "Que Bom" by: "Mocean Worker" http://www.moceanworker.com/

Outro

This where it will get interesting.

I hope to feature a guest, a disabled person who's attending this school, St. Peter's College.

Apart from the usual gripe fest and showing off our sacred and respective scars, like a bunch of Yorkshiremen:

"I was hospitalized for three days before a nurse came into our room."

"Room? Luxury. I had to sleep in a corridor."

"Sleep. Oh we never slept. We used to get woke up at three in the morning by the nurses who would ask us if we needed sleeping pills."

"Well, of course we had it tough. The nurses used to come around with wooden mallets and if you uttered a word, they used to play "Whack-A-Mole" on you."

Apart from that hilarity, I hope to provide some insight into health care policy, disabled mobility issues, disabled access issues, disabled employment issues and whatever else my guests want to talk about.

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2008-12-11T00:57:00.000-05:00

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Rocket Science Banjo - Julie Ann Johnson
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Dan Levenson,banjo camp
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First Look Inside (Kalimba Video)
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm having fun playing the three show a week of classical music but every now and again, I just need to hear some real music played by real people.

This show is all about one of the realest instruments I can imagine.

More complex than just singing, blowing rattling on and beating on some drums.

I'll grant you that you can get some wonderful melodies out of some Kalimba and Mbira thumb pianos, (listen and watch video number 3,) but I'm feeling like banjos today.

It don't get more honest than the banjo.

---- "Clarinet Polka" by: "anonymous" http://www.msbpodcast.com

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Banjo Roids" by: "ATL Producers" http://www.atlproducers.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

But I seem to be shedding a lot of weight instead.

It would help if the big media companies could figure out a way to make money off the internet. That would mean that I could too.

I suspect that its going to be a meritocracy, where content will be king and POV will count for everything.

---- Banjo Strings Promo by: " Larry Winfield" http://www.larrywinfield.com/

---- "Banjo Etudes, Vol I" by: "The Negatones" http://www.negatones.com/

"Thesis:"

Sometimes I get a hankering to hear some honest music.

Specially because I about to talk about something really unpleasant.

The financial sector is really unpleasant.

The people in it are some of the nicest people you'd wanna meet.

Its the financial sector itself, as an enterprise, which is immoral, amoral and proctological.

I worked in it for thirty years so I know the kind of group mind-fuck that happens to all who practice it.

The only thing I know of that worse is the job of tax collector and the toll it can exact on the souls of those who do it.

its the kind of job that marks you for failure, either at the job or as a human being.

Banking is like that and for the same reasons.

---- "Ol Time Banjo - Co Labs - Huber+Hart" by: "51bpm" http://www.51bpm.com/

"Synthesis:"

The financial market are melting down and we're stuck going back to the mid-eighties in terms of personal wealth.

Why?

Because they didn't stop extending credit to themselves until it was way too late and they'd bought too much of their own bullshit.

Its got nothing to do with us as people. Its got nothing to do with them as people either.

Well maybe a bit more to do with them because they're the ones who loaned out TRILLIONS on, uh, mistaken assumptions simply because they could. (The bond and other financial instrument rating agencies should all be run out of town, because they deserve it.)

The regulation wheels fell of the bicycle and they proved that they weren't mature enough to handle it properly. They rode off the road and into a swamp.

The financial system is built on trust and none of them are trust worthy.

The financial system is built out of currency, manipulation and barely honest dealings.

The problems started back in the mid to late eighties (yup, Reaganism and trickle-down was just about as sound a financial policy as "Just Say No" was a sound drug policy, [and a AIDS prevention policy. {Ronny and Nancy have the blood of "millions" on their hands.}])

Springtime in America wasn't. It was just snowing twice as hard on the people who weren't rich enough to be in the "In Crowd." and out of the blowing storm.

Poverty became something anecdotal in America, not because there weren't any poor, (there were millions back then and there's millions more now.)

Poverty was anecdotal because it wasn't the kind of news that you were supposed, or were going to be allowed, to read.

The ruling clique, the non-governmental cabal was in complete control of the media by then.

They'd spin what ever bad news managed to leak out into glorious peans to our elected leaders.

Hope you were going somewhere in the mid -eighties because you're headed exactly there again.

Forget about the fancy houses, the fancy cars, the fancy sex you had since then, 'cause boy you're fucked now, an' they aint' nothin' fancy about it.

---- "Banjo Boy" by: "Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand" http://www.shupe.net/

"Conclusion:"

We'll just see what happens.

Will we ever go back to being some corporation's wage slaves, under threat from every knuckle head with explosives strapped to his ass who's threatening to blow himself up and take our oil supply with him?

Or are we going to wise up and tell the financial markets to kiss our butts goodbye, tell the oil companies to kiss our butts goodbye and tie them all up in the internet's shining glass fibers, and leave them by the curb, with the other trash.

---- "Naked Under Leather" by: "Rubber Band Banjo " http://www.rubberbandbanjo.com/

Outro

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2008-12-07T21:45:00.001-05:00

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This is episode 25

Things are never as bleak as they are painted. (Ok sometime they're even worse but the Gordean Knot called my money situation is slowly becoming untangled. [Wadda ya want? I'm hardly Alexander the Great, now am I? Not for me the hacking through with great big whacks of my sword. {Honestly, it's more like slicing a salami with a pen knife.}])

The situation is no longer quite: "Twisted in Knots" by "Telling On Trixie" ( http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake some right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Here's another promo:

"Head on over to Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

Don't miss the opportunity to hear live music from up and coming artists including Saint Peter's own stars!

The entry fee is free and food will be available for sale (well ... our sale, your purchase :-).

But cheap pizza and Pepsi is cheap pizza and Pepsi.

Its for a gooood cause: US!

So don't miss out on a good time!"

Remember that's Roy Irving Theater on December 8 from 6:30-8:00pm for WSPC's Unplugged!

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Things are looking up.

My podcasting résumé is out there and there's a nibble already.

Yahhhh.

And I came up with another good "tour de phrase" the other day about the necessity of learning project management.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

1, 2, 3

Just a reminder, WSPC Radio is hosting WSPC Unplugged this Monday December 8 from 6:30-8:00p.m in Roy Irivng Theatre.

Stop by to hear live music from up and coming artists including stars from our own Peacock flock here at Saint Peter’s!

Don’t miss out on the chance to mix, mingle and learn more about WSPC Radio.

Bring your fan club!!

4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9

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This episode featured the following music:

"Twisted in Knots" by "Telling On Trixie" ( http://www.tellingontrixie.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"The Sleeping Beauty, Opus 66: Waltz" by: "Peter Ilyich Tchajkovsij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"La Boutique Fantastique - Cancan" by: "Gioachino Rossini" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Coppélia: Festive Dance & Waltz Of The Hours" by "Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Cinderella Suite No. 3, Opus 109: Pavane" by: "Sergei Prokofiev" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Les Sylphydes: Waltz In E-Flat Major, Opus 18, No. 1" by: "Frédéric Chopin"here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Petrushka: Shrovetide Fair & Danse Russe" by: "Igor Stravinsky" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"Sylvia: Les Chasseresses & Cortège De Bacchus" by: "Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

"The Red Poppy, Opus 70: Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance" by: "Reinhold Glière" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp, with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2008-12-07T21:44:00.001-05:00

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Direct link to the episode:

MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.mp3

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Video Links

This is episode 24

I gotta get myself a paying gig.

As it is I'm just hemorrhaging money. I can't keep this up forever.

In fact I'm ... "Bleeding Over" by "something to burn" ( http://somethingtoburn.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

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Okay, I gots to find me some money. Some cash. Some lucre. Some dineros. Some drachmas.

But I resent having to pay Guru.com out of my dwindling pile of sheckels just to look at a job that might or might not be in the least bit interesting.

That kind of information should be free. I'm not applying, not buying, so by locking it up behind some electronic teller, they're not doing me or the guy looking to sell something any good.

The fact is that I'm a podcaster and a podcast producer.

I know what I'm doing as evidenced by this program, (which is my late mother's taste in music, not mine, but then I always liked a challenge.)

I've got around 400+ podasts under my belt and over a hundred thousand episodes published.

I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Now I just have to convince somebody else that they need to do some podcasting.

The main difference between doing a radio show and a podcast is RSS.

But what a difference that makes.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Bleeding Over" by "something to burn" ( http://somethingtoburn.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

"Piano Sonata #8 In C Minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique" - 2. Adagio Cantabile" by: "Ludwig Van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Sérénade mélancolique, Opus 26" by: "Peter Tjajkovskij" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Symphony No.3 in E-flat Major, "Eroica": Second Movement" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Trauermarsch: In gemessenem Schritt, streng wie ein Kondukt" by: "Gustav Mahler" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Elevazione (For Oboe and Cello)" by: "Domenico Zipoli" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Henry V: The Death of Falstaff" by: "William Walton" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

You can send me feed back. suggestions, or just some sign that there's anybody actually outside the studio.

Address email to charles at msbpodcast.com

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2008-12-01T14:16:00.004-05:00

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m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0007.m4a

YouTube ->

Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Intro

If you get you head out of there, you see that the world is not a uniform shade of brown.

But you will see something that scares the crap out of most people, from Einsteins to head-bashed stoners: "Change!"

You will see change that you can't ignore, like getting older, that you can't beg, plead or wheedle out from, like taking the garbage out, and that refuses to go away, like your friends and families when you're having a temper tantrum.

Peak Oil is not an option.

Peak Oil is not an elective.

Peak Oil is not going away. But the oil is...

It took our grandparents, our parents and ourselves a hundred and fifty years to get to this point.

Lets see what we can do over the next fifty years to wean ourselves, our children and grand children from the addiction to oil. (Notice I'm not looking forward beyond that. Our addiction to oil is not a long term problem. [It wouldn't even be a problem if it wasn't for our capacity and willingness to wage war at the drop of a "kepi", {busting everything up,} and the fact that there are "way" too many of us around right now.])

Ultimately, its about our future as a species.

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"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/

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We've got PSAs:

----

Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID)

----

Bed "Machinery" by "Might Could"

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

Thesis:

We're looking at the sixth and final chapter of "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

This chapter, entitled "Managing the Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations", delves into everything that could/should/would be done to try to make it a softer landing

"Chasing the Clouds Away" by "Sinister Dexter" http://www.sinisterdexter.net/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

Synthesis:

This chapter, the last in the book before some end-notes, a bibliography and the index, offers some hints, clues and heuristics about surviving the inevitable collapse of the oil based energy infrastructure.

It offers them in subsections entitled:

"You, Your Home and Your Family" which examines
* Energy usage,
* Alternative Energies,
* Your Home
* Finances (with a multi-page sidebar captioned Resources for Home and Family,)

"Appropriate Technology" which gets into
* health care
* food
* transportation

"Your Commmunity" which delves into
* food
* water
* local economy
* public power
* community design
* local governance
* intentional communities (with a multi-page sidebar captioned community resources,)

"The nation" which flies over
* Alternative energies and conservation
* food systems
* financial and business systems
* population and immigration
* US foreign policy
* transportation
* activism (with a sidebar captioned resources for national policy changes,)

"The world" which takes a really wide view

and he offfers us a final word.

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"Hideaway" by: "Matt Stern" http://www.myspace.com/matthewstern

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

Conclusion:

So we've reached the end of then book but not the end of the story...

I feel that he's a bit more pessimistic than the situation really requires.

The hard part is how to manage a soft landing, one which will see the emergence of electricity generated by renewable natural sources of energy rather than by burning oil.

Next week, I'll be rebroadcasting the shows from number 1 on, until the end of December.

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"Drive Away" by "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

Outro

Go and get the book "The Party's OVER, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by "Richard Heinberg" ISBN: 0-86571-482-7.

You can even go and re-bury your head in the sand afterward.

But you should know what's going to happen and let it guide you and your decisions.

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This episode featured the following music:

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/

Bed "Red on white" by "Michael Ulery"

"Chasing the Clouds Away" by "Sinister Dexter" http://www.sinisterdexter.net/

Bed: "Wrapped in Tinfoil" by "Digital Droo" off of "Active Lancer Original Soundtrack"

"Hideaway" by: "Matt Stern" http://www.myspace.com/matthewstern

Bed: "Bomb In A Suede Smoking Jacket" by: "Juliet Hotel" off of: "Sojourn"

"Drive Away" by "Matthew Ebel" http://www.matthewebel.com/

Bed "Forensic" by: "Nick Murray"

"Take It All Away" by: "Jacob Groten" http://www.myspace.com/jacobgroten

"fading away" by: 'lunarspeed" http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/www.myspace.com/lunarspeed

"Party Down The Hall" by: "The Stone Coyotes" off of the "Fire It Up" album

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2008-12-01T14:16:00.003-05:00

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This is episode 23

Did you enjoy the holidays?

I like Thanksgiving a whole lot more than Christmas.

I'm sorry but when Santa Claus outfits have to fight for shelf space with turkeys and pilgrims outfits, that tells me that Christmas has simply just got too commercial.

Since Canada had its Thanksgiving much earlier than the 'States (mostly because the harvest comes much earlier,) if Christmas intruded in on Thanksgiving there, I'd have grown up a very upset child, what with the image of a fat, blood spattered Santa Claus his snow white beard flecked incarnadine with the very life's blood of his victims, (really, why do you think the suit's red?) holding a dripping hatchet, seared into my young febrile brain.)

"You Upset My Soul" by "Billy Jones" ( http://www.billy-jones.com/ ) here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.

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We got PSAs:

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Campus Safety urges students, faculty and staff to sign up for text alerts, online @ spc.edu/alerts

This will be used to inform students, faculty and staff in an emergency.

This was useful last year in the bomb scare.

To sign up, students must know their Spirit ID # (Bring their Saint Peter's College ID.)

----

There are still no prerecorded promos so I'm going to fake one right now.

How about if I tell you about "Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning"

"Looking for quality sports talk?

Then look no further than Dan Drutz, our own assistant director of athletics, and David Freeman.

They’re here to give you all the latest news and discussion in both college and professional sports.

If you’re a sports fanatic, you won’t want to miss a second of what these two guys have to say.

So be sure to catch “Dan and Dave on Sports in the Morning.”

Every Tuesday from 11 to 12 noon. Only on WSPC: The Sound of Saint Peter’s College.

I just caught their show here in the studio and its "pretty darn good!".

----

There are still no prerecorded promos, well except for "moi."

bed: Oilsands by John Jack

Tuesdays at 5 at WSPC:

"Peak Oil" , what it is, what it means to us all (and believe me it does, if you thought that $4.00 a gallon gasoline was bad, (and don't let the election slump and sag fool you,) the price of oil will reveal just how incomodious a commodity it is.

I'll be featuring podsafe music so I can retransmit them on a full-blown podcast, with an RSS feed, on iTunes without having to pay my soul out to ASCAP/BMI.

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Now Mr. Obama's been elected, we can get onto the business of hating him for his own personality and his own self, instead of punching at straw men and shadows.

All will return to normal as his promised change is turning out to be the same tired old faces from past administrations, spouting the same time worn policies that we'd already grown tired of and cast from office and into the pit of general oblivion.

Now, "Adelante La Musica"

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This episode featured the following music:

"Moonlight Sonata: First Movement" by: "Ludwig van Beethoven" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K525: 2nd Movement" by: "Wolfgang Amadeus Morzart" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Nocturne in F Minor, Opus 55 No.1" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Serenade in F Major, Opus 31: Notturno" by: "Wilhelm Stenhammar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"3 Small Tone Poems - Summer Evening" by: "Frederich Delius" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Tannhäuser: Lied an den Abendstern" by: "Richard Wagner" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune" by: "Claude Debussy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Chanson de nuit, Opus 15 No.1" by: "Edward Elgar" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Waltz, Op. 39/15" by: "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Coppelia - Notturno" by: " Léo Delibes" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

"Minute Waltz" by: "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp

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