I just thought I'd start a thread about nothing so I could spam the hell out of it. If you want to spam long technical or other articles, feel free.

Unsecured webcams. Check em out. No guarantees.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:%22Vi...de%3DRefresh%22

Dear Bart, I don't have any ideas of my own, but I do know how to use Google and my computer will handle pdf files. Do I have to understand the Spam, or will anything from anywhere do?

If you don't understand it or if no one understands it, all the better.

It musta been building up. Mr. Moderate has been totally restrained, or maybe there's just been so little need.

Good pre-emptive measure in case the board goes as I forecast it should: everyone with everyone else on ignore.

It also resulted in me deleting two 'spammy' posts in the medical malpractice/tort-reform thread.

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Only recently have pdf files been copy-able and hence spammable. What wonderful fortune for you. I've abandoned linking to pdf files, as that adobe crap clogs my 'pute. Maybe if I need something you could fetch it for me.

Fortunately you're nameless so we're liable to stay on speaking terms.

Dang, I was reading those. They met my pdf needs test.

PDF files suck, and mostly when you get there they ain't worth the trouble.

They do suck, don't they.

That emperor is naked and butt ugly.

Having started as a mere light hearted parody, this thread may acutally become useful.

Some of them only have the title page, when you finally get there and reboot, and reset and stuff.

Positive unintended consequences. You gotta love those . . .

I think the government sites use lots of PDF links to discourage people from reading them.

Yeah, dammit.

If the "ignored people" don't come in here, then we won't be curious about what they are posting that we aren't reading.

Dastardly bastiges ... or is that bastigely dastards?

The less you read, the less madder you git. Kinda the same idea as my ignore feature here.

Should I put a sign, "Ignored people stay out", ?

I'm still waiting for some real Spam.

The French Revolution on the History Channel.

I saw that. It's pretty good.

Don't give away the ending.

OK. But I was surprised about some parts of the story that were soemwhat different than some of my previous conceptions.

Red flag to bulls.

IOW: sure.



Thanks!

I got a couple good books at the library. They didn't seem to completely agree with each other either. I guess divergent POVs make for differences in "history". Later I'll have to check THC's boards(if they still exist). Haven't been there in a long time.

This was posted on a board by a friend of mine who recently moved to Michigan after living in Houston his whole life.

It says all are welcome, biatch.

I don't know how to edit that.

More rantings.

You gotta ask Spannerb, real nice like.

This guy is incredible. Post me every good thing he writes.



This is SUPERSIZE ROFLORIOUS!

A college kid. Pretty funny stuff, eh?

Count the number of black dots.

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[center]Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame[/center]

A classic car show and a live performance of a Dixieland band set the stage for the third annual Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame induction ceremony held Sunday, June 25, 2000. Honorees from all fields of endeavor inducted this year were Anthony “Tony” Cipriani of Wellsburg, W.Va.; Clarence “Bevo” Francis of Highlandtown, Ohio; Anthony “Tony” Gentile of Wintersville; Ohio; Harry D. McConville of East Liverpool, Ohio; and Frances Jane Shaffer, M.D., of Toronto, Ohio. Posthumous honors were given to Lt. Col. Mark C. McGeehan and John Charles “J.C.” Williams.
Prior to the induction ceremony, the inductees, their family and friends, were feted with a private reception in their honor at the Landora, located in the side entrance of the historic Traveler’s Hotel.
The inductees were then directed to the outdoor stage erected in front of the Hall of Fame on Fifth Street, which was closed to vehicular traffic. U.S. Representative James A. Traficant, who also is a member of the 1998 inaugural class of Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame inductees, served as master of ceremonies for the event, attended by nearly 200.
Coach Lou Holtz was on hand to present the inductee plaques and offer remarks.
Festivities continued at a gala party held at the Serbian-American Cultural Center in Weirton, where the inductees were again recognized and a video presentation of their lives was shown. WTOV-9 Sports Director Bill Phillips and Hall of Fame President Frank C. Dawson shared master of ceremonies duties.
Celebrity guests on hand at the gala party were Coach Holtz, Skip Holtz, Jerome Bettis, Steve Beuerlein, Reggie Jackson and Tony Rice.
Also recognized at the event were 2000 and 1999 Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame Life Improvement Scholarship recipients who were in attendance.
Silent and live auction opportunities were available.

Biographical information and photographs of this year’s inductees follow.

Anthony J. Cipriani, Sr.

Men like Anthony J. "Tony" Cipriani Sr. have long been the backbones of America's hometowns. A lifelong resident of Brooke County, Tony is a native of Follansbee and a product of the Follansbee school system.
Like most men of the industrial Upper Ohio Valley, Tony logged many hours in the mill working at Follansbee Bros. Co. (later Follansbee Steel) for nearly four years, before enlisting in the U.S. Army to serve his country.
Adept had handling the challenges of military life, Tony was encouraged to apply for officer candidates' school. He was sent to infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., and after completing the course, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, infantry, in June 1942. He was a participant in the invasion of North Africa, before being taken prisoner at El Guettar, Tunisia, and held as a Prisoner of War for more than two years. His actions in service to his country earned him several military medals including a Silver Star and a Bronze Star.
After the war, Tony returned home and married Rose M. Cipolletti of Wellsburg. They are the parents of Anthony Jr., George, William, Christopher, Susan Grimm and Mary Paull. They have 10 grandchildren.
In 1948 Tony enrolled at DeVry Tech in Chicago, graduating in 1949 from its television and radio school. He returned to Wellsburg and opened Community Hardware, later known as Community TV. He remained in business for himself for 40 years.
All the while running a business, Tony also served the Wellsburg community as city clerk for two terms, a member of the planning commission and mayor for two-terms. His dogged determination as mayor helped deliver Wellsburg from a financial crisis in the early 1980s.
Under his mayoral leadership, Wellsburg also gained regional and national attention through its designation on the Interior Department's list of Historic Places and through its participation in the Bayer Wellness Program, which brought actor John Forsythe to the town's streets.
Tony's service to community extended to civic projects, as well, ranging from assisting with Wellsburg's legendary Fourth of July celebrations, to volunteering at the Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce, being a member of the Brook County RSVP and serving as chairman of the Friends of Brooke County and the Brooke County Historical Museum Board.
His interest in the town's history propelled him to write the book, Wellsburg, West Virginia 1791-1991, and to develop the Wellsburg Historical Walking Tour in 1996.
He remains active in St. John's Catholic Church of Wellsburg and its choir, the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Knights of Columbus and Garibaldi Lodge.
The recipient of numerous awards including the Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce's "Man of the Year," the Kiwanis Distinguished Service Award and the Kiwanis Legion of Honor for 30 years' service, Tony can be counted on to help when his community calls.

Clarence 'Bevo' Francis
Nearly a half century after catapulting a virtually unknown college into national and international limelight with his phenomenal basketball skills, several NCAA individual scoring records are still held by the gentle and humble giant, Clarence 'Bevo' Francis.
Born one of 11 children in tiny Hammondsville, Ohio, Bevo received his education from schools in the Hammondsville, Irondale and Wellsville, before following his high school basketball coach Newt Oliver to the tiny Rio Grande College and community.
Despite being unable to play basketball at Wellsville High School until his senior year due to a school transfer and ineligibility mix-up, Bevo, nevertheless, broke the school's record and set a new state record by scoring 57 points in one game. He made the All-Ohio team and became the first high school athlete in the state's history to win a Helms Athletic Foundation Award.
His phenomenal scoring performance, honed in adolescence during weekend blitzes of "barn basketball" with friends, continued at Rio Grande for the 1952-53 and 1953-54 hoop seasons. Many of those feats stand today as reflected by NCAA records, which show that Bevo continues to hold the individual record for most points scored in a game (113); highest season average per game (46.5); number of games in which at least 50 points were scored (8 in 1954 and 14 in 1953-54); most field goals scored in a single game (38); most field goal attempts in a single game (71); most free throws in a single game (37) and most free-throw attempts both in a single game (35) and season (510).
After leaving Rio Grande, Bevo toured with the Boston Whirlwinds beginning in the summer of 1954. Later, after leaving the touring team, Bevo played in the Eastern Professional League. Drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA but unable to reach an agreement with the team, Francis returned home to the Upper Ohio Valley and got on with the tasks of working and raising a family.
He and Jean, his wife of 49 years, are the parents of a son, Frank, and a daughter, Marge. They have three grandchildren and a great-grandson.
After settling in Highlandtown, where in 1955 he was among the 13 men who founded the Highlandtown Volunteer Fire Department, Bevo served as fire warden for several years. He also was active in Little League, refereed boys' basketball at Carroll Hills workshop for many years; and co-coached the Southern Local High School Girls Basketball Team in 1975 with his daughter-in-law, Gwen.
After working in various manufacturing jobs in the Upper Ohio Valley, Bevo retired in 1994. Honored annually at the University of Rio Grande, the school he, his coach and Redmen teammates put on the map, Bevo also has been the subject of numerous books documenting his on-court achievements.
Bevo's story seems destined to make the big screen on way or another. ESPN is to air a one-hour show on him in December. In 1995, both Bevo and Oliver, his former coach, signed contracts with Disney Movie Studio for the rights to film the story of the famous Redmen team.

Lt. Col. Mark C. McGeehan

A selfless man of faith and family, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Mark C. McGeehan died June 24, 1994 protecting those under his command from a rogue senior pilot.
Lt. Col. McGeehan's willingness to give the last full measure of his life to spare others is testimony of his leadership and commitment to do right.
Born in East Liverpool Jan. 10, 1956, McGeehan was reared in Chester, one of nine children. Upon graduation from Oak Glen High School in 1974, he attended the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he received his commission in 1978. His professional military education also included Squadron Officer School, where he was a distinguished graduate, and Air and Command and Staff College.
A senior pilot and instructor with more than 31,000 flying hours, Lt. Col. McGeehan advanced through the ranks, serving in such capacities as aide-de-camp to the commander; a faculty member of Air Command and Staff College, where he was chief of the military history and doctrine branch; operations officer of the 325th Squadron; and finally, commander of the 325th Bomb Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base.
It was while serving as commander, that Lt. Col. McGeehan faced a challenging dilemma. After receiving numerous complaints from his junior aircrews about the unsafe flying habits of one of the wing's senior pilots not under his command, McGeehan took evidence of the maverick pilot's recklessness to the wing leadership, using the appropriate chain of command, and requested the pilot be grounded. Lt. Col. McGeehan's request was denied.
With the denial, McGeehan took the remaining option available to protect his pilots and order that on one under his command was to fly with the maverick pilot. If a co-pilot was needed, McGeehan said that he would go.
On June 24, 1994 in preparation for an air show Lt. Col. McGeehan was co-piloting a B-52H bomber when the rogue pilot exceeded flight restrictions for the craft. The bomber sideslipped into the ground, killing everyone on board, the pilot, two crewmembers and Lt. Col. McGeehan.
The decorated lieutenant colonel who was active as a Boy Scout leader, Little League Coach and the Catholic Church, left behind his sons, Patrick, Brendan and Collin, and his wife, Jodie.
Ironically, just weeks before his death as Lt. Col. McGeehan was preparing to hand over the unit flag of the 325th Bomb Squadron for deactivation on July 1, he wrote in an article that was printed June 10, 1994 in the military publication Strikehawk:
"When we think of those who went before us, we should do so with humility, respecting their great personal sacrifice. When we honor our heritage and those with whom we share a common bond and purpose, we are all enriched, and our lives are made a little more worth living."

He's fabulicious. Smart & funny, my favorite combo plate (but you knew that ... chortle).




Seven.



D'oh, Homey!

What's up with the Citizen Awards today, Bart? All the good news that's fit to print?

Yeah Lt Col McGeehan was one of those for whom leadership was not just a byword but was THE WORD.

And in re pdfs:

The problem is not "pdfs" as pdfs, it lies in Adobe's apps to build and read, especially the latter. Acrobat (now called Reader) is filled with stuff you don't need (foreign language bits) and is thus bloatware. As example: there are other pdf viewers, such as Apple's Preview that load pdfs in much, much shorter time. For other platforms, see: http://www.pdfzone.com/bguide/product/SearchResults.asp, and then click on "PDF Viewers" in the column on the left side Under "PDFzone Guide Categories"

Sorry for the previous bad link.

Cheers

Dude, it's their money. You're lucky they let you keep any of it. Three-quarters? I'd need an advanced calculator to count all those blessings.

Of course, the "your money" is exactly the note the right strikes and strikes and strikes. It is the second biggest of their big big lies.

I was researching Bevo Frances and came up with the Holtz awards page. More to come. Southeast Ohio people.

Ohio sales & use tax rates in pretty colors by county:

http://tax.ohio.gov/divisions/sales_and_us...12005_color.pdf

crazy

zero, right?

We counting the black dots on the screen or in our brain.

What would Descartes say?

Judging Music By Its Cover
Despite smaller format, the lost art of album art alive and well

BY TIMOTHY C. DAVIS and JOHN SCHACHT

At the advent of the CD age, it was widely believed the new format would spell ruin for the whole field of album art. But if there was a decline in work, it wound up only in frame-size. People simply adjusted to the smaller format, and as the recent explosion in richly detailed reissues proves, the art still matters. Maybe, if you're like us, and spend more time than healthy pawing through new and used discs at the local record retailer, you've given records a shot on the listening station based on the cover alone. Voila -- the power of good album art. Whether the music matches the quality of the artwork is another aesthetic question, but it seems like a good, if imperfect, yardstick to begin with. After all, nothing says, "ugh, keep looking" like a crap cover -- warring font styles, unintentionally cheesy photos, lackluster graphics. So CL looks at a few trends you too may have noticed, and maybe some you didn't...

Sex Sells Where else to begin? From Elvis' swiveling hips to the raunch of Girls Gone Wild hair metal and booty-centric gangsta rap, sex is key in the rock & roll equation. It began with double-entendre album titles and risque pouts in the early days, advanced to the air-brushed skin of the Ohio Players' catalog and Roxy Music's suggestively S&M record covers, and is now often one-step away from you-are-there porn, like Pulp's no-kidding-around This Is Hardcore. Indeed, most red-blooded men and women will pause, however briefly, at the mere sight of an erogenous zone. For anyone who thinks the woman covered in whipped cream (actually shaving foam) on the front of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights didn't help sell records, here's a dunce hat and copy of The Joy of Sex.

PsychedeliaAlways great for rolling joints due to their large size and slick surface, the 1960s album cover soon became a handy little piece of mind-expanding artwork to pore over as the record played and the tabs took effect. In much the same way that Meet the Beatles became Sgt. Pepper's, 60s album cover art went psychedelic as the decade wore on, with mind-bending covers from the likes of Santana, Mahogany Rush, Nektar, and Yes (more on them later) becoming part of the accepted norm. The psychedelic cover has since become something of a retro item, even though bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and others still use them occasionally by way of paying homage.
Gimmick coversThe goal of an album (after such hogwash like "artistic expression") is to get it in the hands of potential buyers. And what better way -- besides sex -- to do this than to give the music shopper something to play with? Led Zeppelin were the kings of the gimmick sleeve, employing a spinning picture wheel on Led Zeppelin III, a die-cut apartment cover on Physical Graffiti, and several different versions of their record In Through The Out Door, which came packaged in a brown paper wrapper to encourage collector frenzy. The Rolling Stones also used a gimmick cover from time to time: see the famed "zipper sleeve" on Sticky Fingers, the hologram cover on Their Satanic Majesties Request, and the lawsuit-addled Some Girls release of 1978.

Punk OffIt's as famous an album cover as there is: Clash bassist Paul Simonon executing a spontaneous coup de grace to his favorite bass at New York's Palladium, caught by Pennie Smith with the last shot in the roll. It captures all of punk's back-to-basics fury and Day Zero aesthetic (the letter font and layout on London Calling purposefully recalls Elvis Presley's first record), and was a shot over the bow to the fantasy world escapism practiced by the Roger Deans of the world. Ransom-note fonts (the Sex Pistol's Never Mind the Bollocks), plain brown wrappers, generic labels, shocking photos (the Dead Kennedy's Holiday in Cambodia) reflect punk's DIY aesthetic. And it was all (ideally) a reflection of the bare basics inside the sleeve, the human condition reduced to its rawest needs and wants, rock & roll stripped down to its essence.

The Label LookCertain labels developed a reputation for a specific look and stuck with it. They may have opted for familiarity, but the best were able to produce some of the more memorable covers -- why fix it if it ain't broke? At Blue Note, designer Reid Miles worked with one of jazz's best photographers (Francis Wolf) to create hundreds of memorable covers that reflected the label's commitment to the music. Famous for breaking previously sacrosanct design rules -- "hmm, what if I crop the photo in the middle of his head?" -- Miles' covers are aped to this day. ECM, primarily known for its modern classical catalog, creates subtle covers and packages that mirror the music within -- stark and beautiful. Titles on the rock label 4AD -- no matter the band -- are instantly recognizable for their adventurous artwork: the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, or The Mountain Goats could hardly be more different musically, but the cover art says 4AD every time.

The Serial Artist EffectMany musicians, pleased with a particular artist's album cover art, have enlisted the services of said designer for their subsequent records. From Yes and Asia (Roger Dean) to Calexico (Victor Gastelum), Steve Earle (Tony Fitzpatrick) and the Drive-By Truckers (Wes Freed), the ever-popular serial artist effect shows no signs of slowing down. For many bands, aligning themselves with an artist they admire is a way to establish a mood or theme, with the added benefit of making the records instantly recognizable to potential purchasers. Roger Dean is probably the Babe Ruth of the serial artist category, able to make a fine living designing logos and album covers (and now, even houses -- see http://www.rogerdean.com/architecture/index.htm) for well-heeled musicians.

Logo-based coversGot a swell logo you paid a guy some good green for? Use that mother! The band Chicago took this idea to silly extremes, releasing some two dozen albums with the band's name in the very same cursive script (go to www.slothradio.com/covers and punch in "Chicago," and you'll see what we mean). Interestingly, metal bands caught on, seeing the logo-based cover as an easy way to denote power and strength, as well as giving kids something convenient to doodle in their high school notebooks see: AC/DC, Van Halen, or any number of the hundreds of acts located under "logos" at http://www.metalprovider.com/hallsofmetal Logos are still popular -- especially with nu-metal acts -- but the logo as central cover image probably died out with Chicago XXXVII.