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just a thought from the pensacola news journal: Published - June, 18, 2006 Viewpoint: Motorcycle helmets can do more harm than good Zeno Weir The tragic automobile incident of an at-fault driver violating the right of way of motorcyclist and football star Ben Roethlisberger has invited comment by the Safetycrats. Their specious reasoning is that if Roethlisberger had been wearing a helmet he would have been spared injuries. Ironically, the leading cause of death in motorcycle crash incidents is chest trauma. Helmets often do more harm than good, yet the Safetycrats advocate mandatory usage rather than jail time for idiots and drunks in cars who slaughter innocent motorcyclists. If Roethlisberger had been wearing a helmet, it could very well have induced a basalar skull fracture, killing him. After 28 years of riding a Harley-Davidson all over the good ole U.S. of A, I have developed a hate of itchy, hot, heavy, sight- and hearing-restricting helmets. Helmets are as likely to kill a rider as save the rider's skull as long as the impact exceeds 15 miles per hour, since that's all any helmet is rated for. The danger of helmet usage in a crash incident is that the weight of the helmet is multiplied many times and induces basalar skull fracture. NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt, Kenny Irwin and Adam Petty all suffered basalar skull fractures. Today's NASCAR drivers have their head gear restrained to prevent this fatal injury. This is not possible on motorcycles. On March 27, 2003, at about 6:30 p.m. I was riding my Harley on Gulf Beach Highway when I was rear-ended by a distracted "soccer mommy" who fled the incident scene. Always watching my "six" under the "all cars are guilty until proven innocent" Zeno rule, I saw that the automobile was not even going to hit its brakes, and I accelerated and banked away. Flying through the air, I endeavored to "slide into second base" and suffered a separated shoulder, torn rotator cuff and, eventually, had a hip replacement. My helmet was of no factor in this incident, but it did nearly break my neck. It still hurts and is stiff to this day. As I was lying there, trying not to move to prevent paralysis, I wondered if my neck were broken, and then had to threaten to shoot the volunteer fireman who insisted upon removing my helmet before I was properly boarded and head-restrained by the well-trained EMT team. The LifeFlight ride was really nice. I would like to thank Trooper Matthew Freeman of the Florida Highway Patrol, whose diligence brought "soccer mommy" to jail. I would also like to thank Assistant State Attorney Lee Robertson for demanding and getting jail time for "soccer mommy," and a big thanks to Gulf Coast Orthopedics. Bikers all hate to see another person hurt or killed, at any time. We can learn from the tragic deaths of the NASCAR heroes that helmets can be deadly. Occasionally, they do prevent injuries. I have had rocks bounce off of mine. Perhaps, as more and more real medical information is shown to the public, they will begin to see that helmets don't always save lives, but can kill or inflict serious injury. Mandatory helmet laws do nothing to prevent accidents or make motorcyclists safer. If the Safetycrats want to pass laws, try increased penalties for the motorists who maim or kill bikers and who are at fault in the vast majority of motorcycle-automobile incidents. If the State of Pennsylvania would jail the at-fault driver who maimed Roethlisberger, that would coerce some drivers to "Look Twice for Motorcycles and Save a Life." Zeno Weir is a Realtor, a resident of Pensacola and a longtime motorcycle rider.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras. The prototype device, produced by a team in the Interactive and Intelligent Computing division of the Georgia Tech College of Computing (COC), uses off-the-shelf equipment – camera-mounted sensors, lighting equipment, a projector and a computer — to scan for, find and neutralize digital cameras. The system works by looking for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras. “We’re at a point right now where the prototype we have developed could lead to products for markets that have a small, critical area to protect,” Abowd said. “Then we’re also looking to do additional research that could increase the protected area for one of our more interesting clients, the motion picture industry.” Abowd said the small-area product could prevent espionage photography in government buildings, industrial settings or trade shows. It could also be used in business settings — for instance, to stop amateur photography where shopping-mall-Santa pictures are being taken.

thanks for the archive. i have now archived it.

thanks for the beautiful link.....

one of the cats jumped all over rumsey in a cadence interview i think, calling him a flat footed bass player. i'll try to find it. while your delving into that lighthouse stuff, check out that early crusaders stuff, before they added the crappy guitars. blues uptight and scratch just cant be beat.

over the weekend i caught .....turn out the..(2), and the pepper. i loved them both very much, but the pepper is to die for. .......so much thanks for sharing your exquisite taste. aloc....

Where does it say they were fired? how long will it be before we see them on the nightly news? years of passion finally consummated, and to be punished. this is horrible. where's the aclu?

oh yes, there are a few dozen motel visits on the card, too.

this is aloc's much more honorable school administration: Article published Jun 11, 2006 Superintendent to repay district up to $6,000 The Issue: Credit card purchases for alcohol were made on a credit card belonging to Mansfield City Schools. Our Opinion: Superintendent Scott Gordon can reimburse the school district immediately, but it will take much longer to regain the public's trust. Scott Gordon may eventually repay the Mansfield City Schools as much as $6,000 for liquor and other questionable purchases he made with the district's credit card. Auditors, police and the prosecutor's office will determine if that's sufficient to square his financial obligations to taxpayers. But damage Gordon has done to the district's relationship with the public is something that will be much harder to ever quantify, repay and repair. How do you put a price tag on a community's loss of trust in its school district leaders? How can you measure a loss of respect for those who run a school system? What will it take to repair the damage done to an educational system already in distress when Gordon took over in 2004? Gordon, whose retirement becomes effective at the end of June, spoke through his attorney on Friday, promising to provide "full payment" for any questionable charges on the district credit card. "Although Superintendent Gordon feels that he could dispute this amount, he would prefer putting the matter behind him and assisting the Mansfield City School District in doing the same. Superintendent Gordon emphasized that the district credit card was used to meet with business leaders and local governmental officials to further the business of the district and provide community outreach, a main part of the superintendent's job," his attorney said. However, it's hard to tell exactly what the credit card was used for since Gordon never turned in receipts, according to Treasurer Bart Griffith, a violation of the district's credit card policy. Those violations were not made public until the News Journal made a public records request to see the receipts. Griffith, the district's financial leader, may soon have to answer why he paid credit card bills for which he had no receipts. It's now clear Gordon purchased lots of vodka, rum, beer and wine in direct violation of the district's credit card policy. Gordon's attorney said Friday the outgoing superintendent was "never informed about any board policy on the use of the school credit card." That's hard to believe since the district's policy on credit card usage was approved unanimously by the school board on Oct. 19, 2004, three months after Gordon took over. How could he not know of the policy? The assertion Gordon was "furthering the business of the district and providing community outreach" is likewise hard to swallow. For example, how is education of children improved by his spending $90.54 on 14 vodka drinks between 4:43 and 6:51 p.m. on Friday, July 22, at Brant's Bistro, a short walk from the district's offices? How was community outreach improved when Gordon charged $54.84 on Monday, March 6, at 10:10 p.m. on 12 vodka drinks at Sweeney's Two on Lexington Avenue? How was the district's business furthered on Sept. 20, 2005, when Gordon charged $105.30 at 11:21 p.m. for 20 drinks at Sweeney's? It's clear more questions need to be asked before the public allows Gordon to put "the matter behind him" as suggested by his attorney. The educational future of thousands of students depends on it.

Great! Of course, in order to carry around as much music as on my iPod, I'd have to carry around around 3146 cylinders, not to mention the device on which to play them... Far better than an iPod, I'm sure! should be no problem for your average 18" wheel SUV......

bravo!

By LAWRENCE DOWNES Published: June 11, 2006 In a basement recording studio in the Bronx the other day, unencumbered by wires, cables, amplifiers or headsets, a huddle of musicians took their cue and eased into a song. It was a four-man band — trumpet, clarinet, banjo and battered tuba — and a singer, a young woman with saucer eyes, a blond bob and excellent diction. They played and she sang into the fat ends of two long metal horns, like backward megaphones, that funneled the sound to a wooden box, a wind-up lathe on which spun a shiny cylinder coated in brittle black wax. As a needle etched a groove in the cylinder, a surgically attentive man dusted away the shavings with a paintbrush and little puffs of breath. When the music stopped, he put the cylinder on another machine for playback. He turned the crank, placed the needle and a sweet, melancholy song flooded the room. It sounded like an unearthed relic of the Roaring Twenties, though the recording was barely a minute old. Down in the poolroom Some of the gang were talking of gals they knew Women are all the same, said Joe Then one dizzy bird said, Pal, ain't you heard the story of True Blue Lou. It was an electric moment, though electricity had nothing to do with it. The recording was the product of the collaboration of a radio host, Rich Conaty, who plays 20's and 30's jazz and pop on Sundays on WFUV; Peter Dilg, an acoustic engineer; and the pickup musicians who leapt at the invitation to make a brand-new, old-time Edison cylinder. Mr. Conaty, Mr. Dilg and the band are first-rank, certifiable enthusiasts. At lunch after the session, they plunged obsessively into Thomas Edison lore and Tin Pan Alley trivia. They lamented the supremacy of inferior recording technologies. They pined for Betamax and cassettes, for Bix Beiderbecke and Cab Calloway. Mr. Conaty, who plans to play the cylinder on his show tonight, has an audience that, practically by definition, is too young to remember Sophie Tucker, Ukulele Ike or the young and jazzy Bing Crosby. But the people who, like me, plan their Sunday nights around the show have discovered pleasures in the music totally unrelated to nostalgia. It's a revelation to hear music so fresh and strange, so witty and soulful, from people who are dead and gone. And there is another pleasure, too. It's the warmth of the technology. There are surely downloadable versions of "True Blue Lou." But unlike the MP3, whose magic is incomprehensible and thus boring, the wax cylinder is viscerally miraculous. It's staggering to think that lungs and plucked strings could vibrate the air, wiggle a stylus and capture a song for 100 years on a fragile thing that looks like a toilet paper roll. Compared with the iPod, it's a lot more human, a lot more accessible, a lot easier to love. Once you've seen and heard it done, there's no going back.

Most junkies are Wiley. vic young was a wiley junkie, bur vic wasnt wiley

Most junkies are Wiley. vic young was a wiley junkie

Buy barley wines in 22 oz. and with the extra alchyhol content, it'll equal the 40 oz. As Tom Lehrer sang, "new math." .....definitely a veteran groover......

40 ounces is a perfect container for liquid refreshment, however it is difficult to find suitably drinkable beverage in said containers. guinness markets an adequate paltry 38 ouncer(and i am no great fan of guinness), but i am hard pressed to name another... my last 40 was a peurile miller high life........

very good for the glow, right off aloc's top vinyl shelf.

....will send you my own and make a copy for myself if all else fails...........

john handy was a very hot number in the bay area in the mid 1960's. his mid 60's columbia albums, live at monterey and second john handy album, have been among my favorites for many years.

too many locals. WUOM and WKAR used to be among my favs here and clear as a bell............

minels a little nicer than this one.......

can we get you on la web?

just heard the schwarz broadcast this morning. it definitely made me glow..... so beautiful........ thanks!

that was a great show. you honor vocalists really well. blocked on lazlakeweb? what's the deal? will they start with your most recent.........? have you (yet) honored mr. eckstein?