wspc_P34kO1l_0009
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0008.m4a
YouTube ->. .
Official website -> http://thefuelfilm.com/
---- "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.
----
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:
----
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.
---- "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"
Friday, February 06, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0030
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0030
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0030.m4a
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
----
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.
----
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"
----
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.
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0030.m4a
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
----
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.
----
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"
----
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.
----
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
Monday, February 02, 2009
wspc_TheDisabiltyShow_0002
spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0002
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0002.m4a
YouTube -> Dire Straits - Industrial Disease [Sydney -86]
..
----
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/
----
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
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!)
----
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
----
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
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_TheDisabilityShow_0002.m4a
YouTube -> Dire Straits - Industrial Disease [Sydney -86]
..
----
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/
----
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
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!)
----
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
----
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
Friday, January 30, 2009
P34k O1l 0008
wspc_P34kO1l_0008
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0008.m4a
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:
----
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..."
media files:
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0008.m4a
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:
----
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..."
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0029
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0029
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."
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
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."
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
Monday, January 26, 2009
TheDisabilityShow 0001
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 ]
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 ]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0028
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"
----
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
----
I'm very busy so lets get on with it.
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
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.
----
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
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"
----
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
----
I'm very busy so lets get on with it.
Now "Adelante La Musica"
----
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.
----
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
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0027
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.
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
----
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"
----
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
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.
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
----
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"
----
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
Monday, January 12, 2009
msb-0350 A New Beginning.
msb-0350 A New Beginning.
Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
..
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.
----
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
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:
----
Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
..
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.
----
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/ ].
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."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.
"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."
----
Thursday, December 11, 2008
msb-0346 Banjo
msb-0346 Banjo
Rocket Science Banjo - Julie Ann Johnson
..
Dan Levenson,banjo camp
..
First Look Inside (Kalimba Video)
..
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
Rocket Science Banjo - Julie Ann Johnson
..
Dan Levenson,banjo camp
..
First Look Inside (Kalimba Video)
..
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
Sunday, December 07, 2008
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.)
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0025.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.)
----
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!
----
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
----
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
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.m4a
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.
----
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.)
----
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!".
----
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"
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0024.m4a
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.
----
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.)
----
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!".
----
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"
----
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
Monday, December 01, 2008
wspc_P34kO1l_0007
wspc_P34kO1l_0007
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0007.mp3
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.
----
"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/
----
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.
----
"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.
----
"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.
----
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
media files:
mp3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/wspc_P34kO1l_0007.mp3
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.
----
"Take it all away" by "Buddahead" http://www.buddaheadmusic.com/
----
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.
----
"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.
----
"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.
----
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
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.)
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
----
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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0023.m4a
Video Links
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.
----
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.)
----
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.
----
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"
----
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
----
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_0022
spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.m4a
Video Links
This is episode 22
I've just heard from Herrad, a fellow MSer friend of mine from Amsterdam.
She'd been going through a bad patch because she'd been coping as best she could with a neurologist who was a complete idiot.
She finally jettisoned him. (That wasn't very difficult, he never saw her as she kept getting worse and worse... [Some doctors should be selling shoes, not doctoring and neurologists are the worst of the lot. {The field seems to have attracted all the cowards, the people who don't want to deal with emergencies, or with blood or any of the other messy bodily fluids.}])
After a few aborted attempts we're going to try to put together another podcast.
(How else but for, with and through the internet would this even be possible.)
"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
----
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.)
----
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.
----
The field of medicine seems to be a real strange mix of saints and sinners. Far more sinners than saints.
While the harrowing of heroes seems to be the common media interpretation, the sad fact is that these people believe their own press far too much.
In Israel they had a doctors strike that lasted two years, two full years, and during that time, the mortality rate went "down."
When the strike was finally settled, the death rate went right back up.
Tell me why do we need doctors?
For emergencies, right.
If we ate right, exercised and stopped doing foolish things, we could avoid most elective surgery and actually live longer, happier and healthier lives.
Now, "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35: 2nd Movement" by "Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Prelude in D-flat Major, Opus 28, No.15: Raindrop" by "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"String Quartet In F, Op. 3/5, "Serenade" - Serenade" by "Franz Joseph Haydn" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"The Pearl Fishers: Au fond du temple saint (excerpt)" by "Georges Bizet" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Serenade for Strings in E major, Opus 22 (4th Movement)" by "Antonin Dvorák" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Elegy for Strings, Opus 58" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat Major, K595: 2nd Movement" by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Madam Butterfly: Un bel di" by "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Valse triste, Opus 44" by "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Symphony No.3 in F Major, Opus 90: 2nd Movement" by "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPCs 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
Direct link to the episode:
MP3 -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.mp3
m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0022.m4a
Video Links
This is episode 22
I've just heard from Herrad, a fellow MSer friend of mine from Amsterdam.
She'd been going through a bad patch because she'd been coping as best she could with a neurologist who was a complete idiot.
She finally jettisoned him. (That wasn't very difficult, he never saw her as she kept getting worse and worse... [Some doctors should be selling shoes, not doctoring and neurologists are the worst of the lot. {The field seems to have attracted all the cowards, the people who don't want to deal with emergencies, or with blood or any of the other messy bodily fluids.}])
After a few aborted attempts we're going to try to put together another podcast.
(How else but for, with and through the internet would this even be possible.)
"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
----
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.)
----
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.
----
The field of medicine seems to be a real strange mix of saints and sinners. Far more sinners than saints.
While the harrowing of heroes seems to be the common media interpretation, the sad fact is that these people believe their own press far too much.
In Israel they had a doctors strike that lasted two years, two full years, and during that time, the mortality rate went "down."
When the strike was finally settled, the death rate went right back up.
Tell me why do we need doctors?
For emergencies, right.
If we ate right, exercised and stopped doing foolish things, we could avoid most elective surgery and actually live longer, happier and healthier lives.
Now, "Adelante La Musica"
----
This episode featured the following music:
"Loss Of Feeling" by "Blind With Rain" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35: 2nd Movement" by "Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Prelude in D-flat Major, Opus 28, No.15: Raindrop" by "Frédéric Chopin" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"String Quartet In F, Op. 3/5, "Serenade" - Serenade" by "Franz Joseph Haydn" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"The Pearl Fishers: Au fond du temple saint (excerpt)" by "Georges Bizet" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Serenade for Strings in E major, Opus 22 (4th Movement)" by "Antonin Dvorák" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Elegy for Strings, Opus 58" by "Edward Elgar" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat Major, K595: 2nd Movement" by "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Madam Butterfly: Un bel di" by "Giacomo Puccini" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Valse triste, Opus 44" by "Jean Sibelius" here on WSPCs ThymeWarp.
"Symphony No.3 in F Major, Opus 90: 2nd Movement" by "Johannes Brahms" here on WSPCs 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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