Aggie87

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Happy B-day, Ro-beer!!

(would have posted this in the previous Tiger thread, but it's locked...) I saw a link to this on another forum I visit, and haven't seen it anywhere else yet, so I don't know how credible it is. But if true, this is a massive settlement for Elin! Tiger Woods is banned from letting girlfriends near his kids in a divorce deal netting his ex a record $750 million settlement, The Sun reported Wednesday. The golfer agreed to keep single women away from daughter Sam, three, and son Charlie, one. Full article: Elin Nordegren Gets $750M, Custody of Kids in Exchange for Silence in Tiger Woods Divorce

Double Happy Birthday!!

It is indeed, although I guess it's probably closer to the song/demo they had before the Yes guys reworked the song rather than a reworking of a Yes song. I'm sure you're right, as it's a track they brought into their partnership with the Yes guys. I wonder how the Horn/Downes/Howe/Squire/White lineup would have evolved had it stayed together and continued producing music.

Any Yes fans ever hear the Buggles' version of "Into the Lens" (aka I am a Camera)? Interesting to hear how Horn/Downes re-did the song after doing it on Drama with Howe/Squire/White... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjHi6-bpdQ Here is Yes' version (w/cheesy homemade video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvz6cUWsw9w

Interestingly enough, he was also the voice of Gollum in the Rankin/Bass editions of The Hobbit and Return of the King, though not Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (despite the three being available as a set).

Happy Birthday!!

Is that the same guy that was on Letterman for a while? He was wild!

Happy Birthday, Phil!

I really like Damnation quite a bit also. Ghost Reveries and Watershed as well, though Damnation is the high point for me. Depending on my mood I either like or really dislike the cookie monster thing on the other albums though. I’ve still never heard Blackwater Park, so I guess I should check that one out soon.

Rest in Peace, Fred.

Hadn't seen that one, thanks Shawn!

I assume you don’t want King Crimson recommendations, but other Fripp recordings (?). I like these (and probably a bunch of others too): Robert Fripp – Exposure Robert Fripp/Brian Eno – No Pussyfooting Robert Fripp/Trey Gunn/Bill Rieflin – Repercussions of Angelic Behavior Robert Fripp String Quintet (w/Trey Gunn & California Guitar Trio) – The Bridge Between Robert Fripp/Andy Summers – I Advance Masked Robert Fripp/David Sylvian – Damage Robert Fripp/Theo Travis – Thread

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday, Paps!

Happy Birthday, Bruce!

You're welcome, but don't call me Angie.

Corpus Christi will be next. Then....my living room!

Heads up!! PT & Coheed and Cambria Dates PT is happy to announce that the band will be joining Coheed and Cambria to coheadline 12 dates in the US in August. Tickets are on sale to the general public this Friday, June 25th The band will also be headlining their own show at The Warfield in San Francisco on August 10th. ROABP info to be posted shortly. Aug 10th San Francisco, CA - The Warfield (PT only) Aug 12th Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Palladium Aug 13th Las Vegas, NV – The Joint Aug 14th San Diego, CA – 4th and B (21+) Aug 16th Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater Aug 17th El Paso, TX – Club 101 Aug 18th San Antonio, TX - Sunset Station Aug 20th Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall Aug 21st Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Aug 22nd Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium Aug 23rd St Louis, MO - Pageant Aug 24th Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room Aug 26th Cleveland, OH – Nautica Pavilion Man....if this is still for The Incident, San Antonio could be my third show on this tour!

This would seem to be a major drawback for a sexually active woman. The woman can remove it from herself any time she likes - it would just be something to be used when she's concerned she'll be in a position of vulnerability, I think. So it wouldn't prevent her from having a sexually active lifestyle. I think they're saying it can only be removed from the male by a medical professional. Once it's on the male's johnson, he would have to go to a doctor to have it removed. Theoretically he's just assaulted someone, so the the doctor would report the dude to the police. I agree with some of the other comments above though - if it's only mildly painful, it's only going to enrage the rapist to start with, meaning probably more violence for the victim. And I can also envision women using the thing as some sort of retribution or something as well...not strictly as a defensive measure. I think it's a step in the right direction for sure though - maybe it can be further developed to be more debilitating. But I don't agree with the argument about it being "too punitive" for the rapist though - he's committing rape, for Christ's sake! I don't agree that it's further sexualizing women or artificially altering them or whatever, either. And there should definitely be consequences for any woman found using it for vengeance or whatever - that might constitute assault and battery or something, I dunno.

Interesting new idea for help in rape prosecution. Perhaps just the fact that it's out there could help prevent some rapes as well, if it catches on... Link South Africa Debuts Anti-Rape Female Condom CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 21) -- Counseling a rape victim more than 40 years ago, Dr. Sonnet Ehlers got an idea for an anti-rape female condom that South Africa is now testing during the mostly male and sometimes raucous, alcohol-fueled celebrations for the World Cup. "It was in 1968 or 1969, and I was a young intern counseling a girl from one of South Africa's townships, who'd been raped. She said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" Ehlers told AOL News. "And I thought, God, it would be great to make something that could really be useful." Ehlers, a 62-year-old physician, lab researcher and hematologist -- and a mother of two daughters -- spent the next four decades developing a female condom with jagged latex hooks that latch onto the skin of an attacker. Dubbed "Rape-aXe," the condom is inserted with an applicator like a tampon, and it clenches a man's penis and causes "immense discomfort" without drawing blood. It can only be removed by medical professionals, who are being familiarized with the device in order to contact South African police when they see one. "I'm not out for vengeance. It doesn't leave permanent damage to the penis, but there will be tiny little scars to remind him of what he's done -- something his wife or future wife might ask him about," Ehlers said. The new condom was patented in 2007, and Ehlers hopes to begin selling it in South African pharmacies and grocery stores soon. It's being evaluated by the country's Bureau of Standards and would sell for about $2.50. Meanwhile, Ehlers has distributed samples to 100 unnamed women across South Africa this week, for initial testing during the World Cup. South Africa has one of the world's highest crime rates outside war zones, with 50 murders and 140 rapes reported each day, though experts believe the real number of rapes could be many times higher. A 2009 survey by South Africa's Medical Research Council found that 28 percent of men admitted to having raped a woman, and 20 percent said they had done so in the past year. After that emotional meeting with a rape victim in the late 1960s, Ehlers describes how she began inventing the new condom by experimenting with a household item: the safety seal found on a soda bottle. "I was playing around with the plastic strip that tightens around the bottle's neck, running my fingers over it, and then I phoned Coca-Cola," Ehlers said. One of the company's engineers joined her team, which also includes gynecologists and psychologists who've interviewed rapists in South African prisons, she said. Critics of Ehlers' invention say it could be too punitive for the alleged rapist, and also worry that the device could lead to more violence against women, once a rapist realizes that he's been branded by the device. Some also say it's unfair to put the onus of halting rape on women rather than on the offenders themselves. "Women should not need to artificially alter our bodies to prevent rape," Erin Matson, a vice president of the National Organization for Women, told AOL News in an e-mail interview. "Preventing rape requires educating women and men. ... By putting the focus on women's own anatomy, this product seems to use rape -- a serious crime -- to sexualize women even further." A South African expert on gender-based violence, Lisa Vetten, said the device harks "back to the days where women were forced to wear chastity belts." "It is a terrifying thought that women are being made to adapt to rape by wearing these devices," Vetten, with South Africa's Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, said in a 2007 statement when Ehlers obtained her patent. "Women would have to wear this every minute of their lives on the off-chance that they would be raped." Ehlers advises women to wear the anti-rape condom when they're walking through dimly lit neighborhoods alone at night, or even on a blind date. It can be worn for 24 hours straight, she said. For years, Ehlers counseled rape victims and heard stories about how women tried to use makeshift devices similar to hers to protect themselves. She said one woman confessed to having embedded a razor blade into her contraceptive sponge, to hurt any man who might rape her. Ehlers said she wanted to develop a safe, medically approved device for women that wouldn't maim their rapists, either. "My critics say I've developed a medieval device, but I say it's a medieval device for a medieval deed," Ehlers told AOL News today in a phone interview from her office north of Cape Town. "I've had so many e-mails from women who've been raped, who say 'Now we feel armed,'" Ehlers said, referring to women who've heard about her invention. "We want to get T-shirts that say, 'Try me now.'"

Texas has turned down the Pac 10's offer, confirmed by the Pac 10 Commissioner (see Dallas News link). That almost assuredly means none of the other teams that were following Texas' lead will go anywhere. The focus now seems to be on reenergizing the Big12 in its present 10 team form. A&M still seems to be weighing options between staying and moving to the SEC (though the article in that link is inconsistent - says at one point A&M is considering the SEC, and later says the $ to stay in the Big 12 were enough to convince A&M to stay).