tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53104832011-09-06T20:48:30.223-07:00NadeauTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.comBlogger1201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-43381008723106079442011-04-07T09:10:00.000-07:002011-04-07T09:18:51.456-07:00Notable TrialsTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-44769276300308359602011-03-15T02:51:00.000-07:002011-03-15T02:56:04.645-07:00Japan earthquake speeds earth spin, shortens dayThe massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth's day by a fraction and shifted how the planet's mass is distributed.
A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth's spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-90888879467084331172011-03-10T22:56:00.000-08:002011-03-10T23:01:56.738-08:00True crime Down Under: It doesn’t get any betterOn the surface the most civilised of cities, with a thriving arts and cultural scene, Melbourne has become notorious over the past 15 years as Australia's gangland capital. A long-running turf war between rival crime clans left nearly 30 people dead between 1998 and 2006. The main protagonists are now dead or in jail, but the violence continues" a Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-2521966369337023472010-10-25T03:06:00.000-07:002010-10-25T03:12:17.551-07:00WSWS: NY Times article ‘drips with malice’
at Assange disclosure of damning documentsThe response of the New York Times to WikiLeaks’ posting of classified American military documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq is to downplay the atrocities and portray WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as the criminal party.
The newspaper of record of the American liberal establishment is not outraged by Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-14953123670302623832010-10-22T22:15:00.000-07:002010-10-22T22:26:26.463-07:00Jury gets People v. Siavii after 2 brisk closing argumentsby Tom NadeauThe jury heard two persuasive closing arguments Thursday in People v. Poe Blue Siavii, #08F07611 and was expected to begin deliberating Monday whether the Samoan defendant was guilty of first degree murder under special circumstances.
If convicted, Siavii could be sentenced to life in prison for May 5, 2008 killing of JoshuaTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-60868746922845356922010-10-18T02:03:00.001-07:002010-10-18T02:29:22.325-07:00WSWS: Democrats turn further right...With only two weeks remaining in the 2010 election campaign, Democratic Party candidates in closely contested races for the Senate, the House of Representatives and many statewide offices are highlighting their right-wing policies and minimizing any differences with their Republican opponents.
Opinion polls and media analysts are generally forecasting a Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-48462399612731153902010-10-17T09:53:00.000-07:002010-10-17T10:42:32.537-07:00Sparks cops a plea to 'vol-man'; Rampone goes to trialby Tom Nadeau
Dustin William Sparks entered a surprise plea of guilty to two lesser counts of voluntary manslaughter in Yuba County Superior Court Friday in exchange for the prosecution dropping two first degree murder charges.
Under the terms of the negotiated plea in People v. Sparks the defendant faces up to 13 years in state prison. Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-26432202928819029482010-10-15T04:53:00.000-07:002010-10-15T05:12:20.374-07:00A link to see your mortgage’Demand to see your mortgage note’
Your chance to see if you’re a victim of mortgage fraud is here: Wondering if you are one of those suckers paying a mortgage in limbo, with all the payments due to some non-existent mortgage noteholder getting retained at the servicer banks? Well, if you can spare 3 minutes then ’Where’s the Note?’ is for you. The website, which is onTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-10026488692302111092010-10-14T06:07:00.000-07:002010-10-14T06:07:16.226-07:00Witness glitch delays Leary trial againby Tom Nadeau
The trial of former Elk Grove City Council member Michael Leary on fraud charges was postponed Wednesday until Oct. 25.
Sacramento County Superior court Judge Gary Ransom delayed the trial start at the request of Deputy District Attorney Michael Blazina.
Blazina said a key prosecution witness was unavailable until then.
The prosecution alsoTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-76298381697851637112010-10-11T06:01:00.001-07:002010-10-11T06:36:45.814-07:00Inside jobs
Inside Job: the movie
Keye ways to loot the system
Versions of the truth
History of happiness
Latest from TheaterlandTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-64592537673201845492010-10-10T07:51:00.000-07:002010-10-11T03:44:19.670-07:00Those snookered should roll with the punch and hit backThose so thoroughly snookered in the many bank borrowing scams that jacked up, looted and then laid waste to home “values” continue to refuse to come to grips with the home value decline.
Oh, more and more of them have tumbled to the fact that they are upside-down on their home value versus house payments ratio, but they are dealing with Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-21402507013477455612010-10-08T11:11:00.000-07:002010-10-11T03:56:20.409-07:00Money is owed, they just don’t know who it’s owed to
’Robo-meltdown’ and ‘Foreclosuregate’
’Foreclosuregate’ and massive fraud
Who owns Congress
Robert Reich on income disparity
Arthur “Never a bad movie” Penn dead at 88Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-66896794973551295062010-10-07T07:15:00.000-07:002010-10-11T03:26:38.682-07:00UAW cuts auto workers’ payUnited Auto Workers officials told Local 5960 workers in Lake Orion, Mich. Sunday they had agreed to a 50 percent wage cut for workers with less than 11 years seniority at GM’s assembly plant in the Detroit suburb.
Shocked workers were told they would not be permitted to vote on the wage cut because “general language” in the 2009 labor agreement allowed GM and the UAWTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-86996528508268792172010-10-03T16:43:00.000-07:002010-10-11T03:54:20.235-07:00Juror in People v Mercer has regrets, wants him re-triedSentencing of Timothy Brian Mercer was postponed at the last moment for one month because one of the 12 jurors who convicted him of lewd and lascivious conduct with a girl under 14 had expressed deep misgivings about her ‘guilty’ vote.
Defense attorney Chad Cameron Couchot asked for the delay to give him time to verify Juror #9’s misgivingsTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-69225726484180548472010-10-01T05:36:00.001-07:002010-10-07T05:18:14.457-07:00The stench of dictatorship here, now The raids carried out by the FBI against antiwar activists last week are an ominous warning to the entire working class. The police-state tactics show the extent to which basic democratic rights—including the right to free speech and political association—have been dismantled in the US.
The Obama administration ordered the invasion of the homes of several Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-12294043104346711012010-09-04T07:53:00.000-07:002010-09-04T07:56:30.008-07:00Management job opportunityApply within.
Sample of duties.
Beware of substitutes.
Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-90002382909903507732010-08-31T13:09:00.000-07:002010-08-31T13:15:41.405-07:00Vacant federal judgeshipsAlmost one in eight federal judgeships is vacant in the country and legal scholars warn that the increasingly politicized confirmation process threatens the administration of justice across the nation.
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Of the 102 federal judgeships open, there are nominees pending for 39 seats.LA TimesTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-13176438684368520562010-08-13T00:32:00.000-07:002010-08-13T07:56:12.841-07:00Mourners recall famous prosecutorMemorial services for G. Dave Teja were heavily attended Wednesday with the assemblage of family and friends, prosecutors, defense attorneys and cops representing his seven decades of life and service in Sutter County. @NotableTrials
SEP candidate on collapse of corporate capitalismNick Beams outlines the socialist response to growing social inequality, militarismTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-75489338512745804372010-08-11T07:58:00.000-07:002010-08-11T08:21:26.779-07:00World food crisis? You bet!Consider the following:
The mackerel war The European Union could impose trade sanctions against Iceland or stop its ships from entering EU ports in an emerging "mackerel war".
In an echo of the 1970s "Cod War" when British gunboats were sent to ward off Icelandic trawlers in disputed waters, the EU has warned it will take "all necessary measures" to protect its Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-1379576893462414612010-08-03T11:26:00.000-07:002010-08-03T12:56:13.144-07:00False premise on which Arizonians base their blatheringIn a recent email StratFor stated this:
The problem is that Mexicans are not seen in the traditional context of immigration to the United States. As I have said, some see them as extending their homeland into the United States, rather than as leaving their homeland and coming to the United States. Moreover, by treating illegal immigration asTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-25661690878704646502010-08-02T06:33:00.000-07:002010-08-02T07:44:56.650-07:00Theater, sex and crime converge once againThe man who stole Shakespeare to fund a good time and a girl got eight years and a tongue-lashing from a judge for booklegging a priceless early edition of the Bard's works, the British press reported today. An unemployed antiques dealer with a taste for the high life was jailed today for eight years after he was convicted of handling a stolen copy of a Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-84204229289301543182010-07-31T13:19:00.000-07:002010-07-31T14:02:02.624-07:00I'll be your baby tonight ... for $75US an hour
I meet my friend Andy in a cafe. Over a coffee we chat about music, current events and the ups and downs of our working lives. We don't spend a lot of time talking about our feelings or our relationship, or rehashing the past. It's just not that kind of friendship. I prefer it that way, and I know Andy feels the same, because I'm paying him to feel Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-71284056035196097162010-07-31T07:15:00.000-07:002010-08-13T01:00:13.331-07:00Stardom and strolls down pageant ramps often linkedStardom and strolls down the beauty and fashion ramp have often been linked.
Marilyn Monroe — affectionately recalled in song as "Norma Jean" — is probably the most famous example.
While her first husband, James Dougherty, was sailing in the World War II Merchant Marine, Norma Jean Dougherty spray painted plane parts at a munitions factory. An Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-27908286810016098852010-06-12T04:27:00.000-07:002010-06-12T07:46:49.579-07:00Brauchli: How to buy a judgeOne of money’s more amusing appearances was in the 1980s when the Texas Supreme Court decided a contract dispute between Pennzoil and Texaco in favor of the former with the result that Texaco settled with Pennzoil for $3 billion. Following entry of that judgment, wags observed that in one year the lawyers for the winning side had contributed in excess of $300,000 to Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-84767149936518997422010-06-03T03:00:00.000-07:002010-06-03T03:35:08.980-07:00Quiet man kills 12, wounds 11 before turning gun on selfin picturesque county in northeastern part of England Initial readings suggest that twin brothers were in some sort of dispute over the assignments of a will when one of them flipped out and killed his twin and the family lawyer. Then it was "in for a penny, in for a pound" and the killer went on a shooting spree.Killer Derrick Bird held a Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-79556564747922152582010-06-02T06:41:00.001-07:002010-07-31T11:01:09.947-07:00Fares up, services cut as more need public transit;
1 more sign the world’s on brink of an ‘age of rage’People are losing the homes and living in their cars. Next to go in this severe economic shutdown and period of rising oil prices is the car. An increasing number of people will be homeless, carless and in deep need of a public transit ride to the Wal-Mart on the outskirts of town to buy what Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-90384412285210738122010-06-01T02:51:00.000-07:002010-06-01T03:03:01.447-07:00WSWS has the BP-Gulf disaster properly peggedThis disaster is another demonstration of the way in which global society is vulnerable to the destructive operations of privately owned corporations, whose guiding principle is profit and the enrichment and private shareholders.The government has committed massive resources to the military and the Department of Homeland Security, on the pretext that Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-70102409258219719702010-05-28T00:57:00.000-07:002010-05-31T09:56:30.854-07:00Will this be the next courtroom exhibit?He bears a passing resemblance to the Grim Reaper, the dead are his business and the media even calls him "Doctor Death." His Body Worlds exhibition of human bodies and animals -- preserved and displayed in often bizarre poses in a method he invented and calls plastination -- has been seen by over 30 million people around the world. But this week, Gunther Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-86329505686397439472010-05-26T07:42:00.001-07:002010-05-27T11:57:48.928-07:00 Euler’s Identity: Mathematical crop circle It is perhaps little known that the beautiful county of Wiltshire, famed for Stonehenge and the white horses carved into its hills, is the most active area for crop circles in the world, with nearly 70 appearing in its fields in 2009. It is unsurprising then, that the appearance of a phenomenally complex 300ft design carved into an expanse of rape seed Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-26494218087561694122010-05-23T05:34:00.000-07:002010-05-23T05:55:19.547-07:00Twain, gold and CaliforniaTwain’s long banned tell-all bio out in NovemberScholars are divided as to why Twain wanted the first-hand account of his life kept under wraps for so long. Some believe it was because he wanted to talk freely about issues such as religion and politics. Others argue that the time lag prevented him from having to worry about offending friends.One thing's for sure: by Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-14665569402099879802010-05-19T04:36:00.000-07:002010-05-19T07:08:27.809-07:00Sick rich exploit well poor A Beijing court is prosecuting a man for illegal organ trafficking, local media reported, putting the spotlight on a grisly black market in body parts in a country where demand for transplants far outstrips supply. Half a liver can be bought for 45,000 yuan ($6,590), while an entire transplant including operation and recovery costs, can be completed for 150,000 yuan [Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-89595734182260439712010-05-18T05:40:00.000-07:002010-05-18T06:33:22.644-07:00Man wakes up to oil damageGulf oil spill impact remains a mystery Paul Montagna, a marine biologist at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi who studies the coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, explained that the underwater impacts of the spill are likely to be much greater than what has appeared on the surface, itself a slick the size of the state of Delaware.“There is now a great deal of concern Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-28829531194850456172010-05-16T09:04:00.000-07:002010-05-16T10:44:11.825-07:00F..k'd stands for Facebook'd A friend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asked him, back in 2004, after the 19-year-old had casually mentioned in an online conversation that 4,000 people had uploaded their personal information to his fledgling website: "How did you manage that?" He typed back: "They just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'," then indiscreetly described them as "Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-6687806622230731762010-05-15T06:39:00.000-07:002010-05-15T09:26:43.445-07:00Last Ziegfeld girl diesThe young Doris Eaton Travis performed in feathers and silk, and sported Cupid lips and bobbed hair embellished with saucy curls.President Woodrow Wilson once waved to her from the audience and George Gershwin ("a nice young man") composed at her family piano. By the time she died, she was not only the last of the legendary "Ziegfeld girls" but one of the few remaining Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-10281883247814530932010-05-14T08:11:00.000-07:002010-05-14T11:57:26.218-07:00Alas, BP PR guys, one can know simply by lookingBP has said repeatedly that there is no reliable way to measure the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by looking at the oil gushing out of the pipe. But scientists say there are actually many proven techniques for doing just that.Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-39320529695526433762010-05-13T07:49:00.000-07:002010-05-13T08:48:49.536-07:00Bageant: 'Big Brother got the ju-ju, Gaia the blues’That common womb of American consciousness is dying. Slowly or rapidly, depending on how you assess the global ecocide and peak everything, it is dying. There will be resuscitations along the way, more massive infusions of money, fear and the rawest sort of fantasy fed to a mood and commodity drugged public. Still, its condition is terminal, Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-39528522698510956542010-05-12T13:00:00.000-07:002010-05-13T06:20:38.736-07:00Hung jury in Archer trial on sex chargesby Tom NadeauA Yuba County jury declared itself hung, 7-5, Tuesday in the alleged child molestation case against Earnest Rex Archer, news reports indicated.The bare majority favored a guilty verdict, the jury foreperson told Yuba County Superior Court Judge Julia Scrogin. Scrogin declared a mistrial.The jury of 10 women and two men debated behind closed Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-57131983022028451002010-05-09T05:46:00.000-07:002010-05-09T15:47:23.795-07:00Recall what I said about ‘official’ figures being fake? Respected economist John Williams agrees. His hard numbers closely match the eyeball "guesstimates" Dan Gougherty and I have previously posited. And the truth, Williams claims, is that the economy has always performed much more poorly than the federal numbers indicate. Prices are higher, fewer people are working, and the economy is growingTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-45157834149660640872010-05-08T06:04:00.000-07:002010-05-09T07:02:55.840-07:00Grim California jobless stats tell only half the story The “official” 12.6 percent unemployment rate reported in Golden State probably represent only one-half of the actual number of people somehow getting by without jobs or income, “unofficial” sources calculate.Those “unofficial” sources would be much higher, according to myself and Dan Gougherty, who have been keeping a close eye on this Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-40642913229231312152010-05-07T07:26:00.000-07:002010-05-07T09:28:09.186-07:00When economy goes down, intolerance goes up…Most American voters think Arizona was right to pass its own immigration law, and think the Obama administration should wait and see how the new law works rather than try to stop it, according to a Fox News poll released Friday.The new poll finds 61 percent of voters nationally think Arizona was right to take action instead of waiting for the federal Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-29740973546278656132010-05-06T00:10:00.000-07:002010-05-06T03:03:22.055-07:00The past was better than the futureMarine scientists have discovered that despite modern trawlers being 50 times more effective than their sailing equivalents in the 19th century, they only catch a third more fish.Stocks of some varieties of fish such as halibut are so decimated that it takes 500 times as much effort to pull them from the sea as it did in 1889. Britain's fleet of trawlers – Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-61530921979652900642010-05-04T07:20:00.000-07:002010-05-04T08:21:42.172-07:00Was destruction of economy a plot?Or was it just 'in everyone's interest'?Many people now believe that the financial crisis was not an accident. They think that the Bush administration and the Fed knew what Wall Street was up to and provided their support. This isn't as far fetched as it sounds. As we will show, it's clear that Bush, Greenspan and many other high-ranking officials understood the Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-47677975400599799532010-05-03T04:10:00.000-07:002010-05-03T05:02:05.953-07:00A dose of what Homeland Security really means with toe-in-the-water deployment of troops in USLast week, two Illinois state representatives, John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford, both Democrats from the Chicago area, called on Governor Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley to deploy the National Guard in the US city’s western and southern neighborhoods.The state Democrats pointed to the deaths of 113 Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-90077025463851812872010-04-30T04:35:00.000-07:002010-04-30T07:45:41.683-07:00Today looks to be typicalScanning the news, doing the fewest possible household chores consistent with human decency, buying minimal groceries, sifting through further proceedings in People v. Santana, Vasquez and then writing it all up and posting it. Yup, it looks like a more or less typical day is shaping up for me. [Insert yawn here.]But first some news items I found interesting today:If you Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-49733727968497781102010-01-04T06:19:00.000-08:002010-01-04T15:38:02.185-08:00California needs $8b more in federal aid,but chances of getting it are zero and zipObama and Ogeithner shoveled trillions to Wall Street at the first peep of anxiety, but Main Street can expect not help at all, Opelosi says.Here is what Dan Conway at World Socialist Web Site says about this.The office of congressional House Speaker and California representative Nancy Pelosi, however, issued a Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-71509038812311426022010-01-02T08:39:00.000-08:002010-01-02T10:06:37.501-08:00Booze ban coming to airports, flights?Lanvin, Forbidden Passion out, too?Some have been wondering what security demand police state officals will make that might prove to be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back with the long-suffering, but so far compliant public.This proposed screw-tightening move could well be it.The most contentious measure that Rainer Wendt -- head of the German Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-60642480614500792432010-01-01T08:09:00.000-08:002010-01-02T07:38:52.945-08:00Prosecutors cut such deals dailyand the judges are delighted by it[US Judge Ricardo] Urbina said the prosecutors ignored the advice of senior Justice Department officials and built their case on sworn statements that had been given under a promise of immunity. Urbina said that violated the guards' constitutional rights. He dismissed the government's explanations as "contradictory, unbelievable Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-31184418546507866152009-12-29T05:35:00.000-08:002010-01-03T05:27:58.303-08:00New Year’s resolutions are better keptif subdivided into several smaller parts[P]eople who kept their resolutions tended to have broken their goal into smaller steps and rewarded themselves when they achieved one of these. They also told their friends about their goals, focused on the benefits of success and kept a diary of their progress.People who planned a series of smaller goals had an Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-13103401571920385052009-12-28T14:57:00.000-08:002009-12-28T15:30:28.570-08:00Last of the Kon-Tiki voyagers dies at 92; grant him a fair wind and moderate seaAdventure stories rarely come more epic than that of Knut Haugland, the Norwegian resistance fighter who died on Christmas Day at the age of 92. His exploits were already the stuff of legend even before he joined Thor Heyerdahl's crew aboard his balsa wood raft, Kon-Tiki. Together they not only conquered the vast Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-21247841796352756952009-12-27T06:03:00.000-08:002009-12-27T07:03:10.568-08:00Where does the Guinness Bookof World Records stand on this?A man who has been described as Britain's most prolific shoplifter was jailed for one day yesterday after committing his 321st offence.David Archer, 54, from Rhyl, north Wales, has served the equivalent of two life sentences as a result of his addiction to petty crime. He has been unable to spend 14 out of the past 15 Christmases with Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-16200339461039967402009-12-26T09:30:00.001-08:002010-01-02T07:53:48.868-08:00Save Mother Earth: eat the dog, kill the catMan's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle. But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-80112966670313526212009-12-25T13:21:00.000-08:002009-12-25T16:47:52.291-08:00Alcohol’s neolithic origin: first the booze, then the wheel, eventually the DUI ticket Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern thinks so. The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to start growing crops.It turns out the fall of man Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-51227541431508585982009-12-23T09:49:00.001-08:002009-12-23T10:03:07.203-08:00Entropy, ’truthiness’ conquering realityConsider the effects of the new "million-channel media universe." Talk radio, cable television and the Internet (YouTube and the blogosphere) offer so many contradictory "facts," "truths" and "informed opinions" that people everywhere can essentially select and interpret facts in a way that accords with their own personal, idiosyncratic and often Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-58521922693033999022009-12-22T05:38:00.000-08:002009-12-22T14:40:23.808-08:00While bland Keillor goes bonkers,others go home for Yeshua’s b’dayThe muse of Minnesota, Garrison Keillor, is generally thought of as an impeccably liberal figure. He was raised as a member of the Plymouth Brethren, a notoriously rigorous Christian sect; but as an adult he became an Episcopalian by choice, indicating a much less stern attitude to matters of faith than that practised by his Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-43009570706830106212009-12-21T08:13:00.000-08:002009-12-21T10:38:36.509-08:00That Boy Scout founder disobeyedown law doubles memorabilia priceDocuments suggesting Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell illegally executed a prisoner-of-war have been sold for £3,740. Papers relating to the Second Matabele War in 1896 say Baden-Powell, then a Colonel in the British Army, ordered the shooting of an African chief. The chief, Uwini, had been promised his life would be spared if heTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-48029593826296223042009-12-20T08:11:00.000-08:002009-12-20T08:31:30.626-08:00Christmas nears, so here are relics to recall Christmas, which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, being close at hand this might be a good time to recap the main religious remnants associated with Himself – the chief of which, relic ranker David Farley asserts – is "the Holy Foreskin." As Catholic scholar James Bentley wrote of Holy Family curios: "None, however, ranks in absurdity with the Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-44540624247620283572009-12-20T05:46:00.000-08:002009-12-20T06:58:31.759-08:00Copenhagen: a failure to live in infamyThe most progressive US president in a generation comes to the most important international meeting since the Second World War and delivers a speech so devoid of substance that he might as well have made it on speaker-phone from a beach in Hawaii. His aides argue in private that he had no choice, such is the opposition on Capitol Hill to any action that Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-75683266796120094292009-12-19T05:53:00.000-08:002009-12-19T17:12:39.115-08:00DNA frees Florida prisoner after 35 years The release of a Florida man who had served 35 years in prison for a rape he did not commit is setting off a fresh wave of self-examination by the legal profession in America about the dangers of faulty testimony, which can result not just in wrongful incarceration but possibly also the execution of the innocent. James Bain, 54, was released at a court Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-20754265830766105742009-12-18T05:10:00.000-08:002009-12-18T11:31:52.269-08:00Santa's dead and interred in Ireland;the Irish claim this, others dispute itMany believe St. Nick was a real person, but dispute where his mortal remains remain today. The Irish have an opinion on the matter, of course. The saint who the legend of Santa Claus is based on is believed to be buried in Kilkenny, according to local historians. The remains of St Nicholas of Myra, the philanthropist whoTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-11706122739213893582009-12-17T07:56:00.000-08:002009-12-17T09:43:34.142-08:00Beatle John Lennon at last vindicated: Red Mole, Black Dwarf, White AlbumIt took more than 40 years, but John Lennon has finally got in his furious response at having Revolution, one of his most famous songs with the Beatles, unfavourably compared to the BBC radio drama Mrs Dale's Diary.The jibe that the Beatles had sold out to the establishment was made in 1968 in a letter to Tariq Ali's radicalTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-57122139250702065312009-12-16T10:32:00.000-08:002009-12-17T12:02:40.749-08:00Lousy time for US, or so Sam Smith saysThis is a lousy time [says Smith]. We're in the worse economic collapse since the 1930s depression. We can't get out of one war we were never able to justify. We are escalating another war we can't even explain, let alone justify. The environment is deteriorating. Nobody around the globe seems to respect America any more, including many of our own Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-65400424928420612122009-12-15T03:03:00.000-08:002009-12-17T09:48:25.368-08:00Ganbei! Chinese drink till they drop deadWhen police sergeant Chen Lusheng passed away, his superiors designated him a martyr who "died in the line of duty" and urged colleagues to donate money to his family.But his death came not on the streets of the southern city of Shenzhen – rather, in a banqueting room during an off-duty drinking binge with local officials,a state newspaper has reported.TheTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-6636588019423552602009-12-14T23:57:00.000-08:002009-12-15T03:25:34.594-08:00 ‘Breathe in…breathe out… Hold on, my wife’s calling’The stethoscope, the 200-year-old accessory without which no doctor is complete, could soon be replaced by the humdrum mobile phone. A computer scientist who wrote a program that turns an Apple iPhone into a stethoscope has made a major advance in medical technology and created a sensation among heart specialists. The application, called Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-74471009929892815942009-12-14T06:35:00.000-08:002009-12-14T07:20:04.148-08:00Google’s Goggles gives some goosebumpsAn internet service launched last week by Google to help cameraphone users to identify strangers in the street has been blocked because of alarm over its threat to personal privacy. The new service, called Goggles, is a picture search which uses images rather than words to trawl the web.[…][T]he most controversial aspect of the new visual search tool is its Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-34249729689815394242009-12-13T11:22:00.000-08:002009-12-13T12:10:46.293-08:00St. Iosef of VolotskRussian traders get patron saint,large contributions are expectedIn the US large contributions can buy you a political patron. In the USSR large contributions can buy you a patron saint.Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill announced this week that after carefully weighing all potential candidates he has selected St. Iosef of Volotsk as the patron saint of entrepreneurs.The Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-26065454720429746532009-12-12T08:34:00.000-08:002009-12-12T09:29:58.893-08:00Stieg LarssonIt was just, y'know...bidness[But] when he comes to the villain of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a many-tentacled tycoon named Wennerström, [Stieg] Larsson’s prose is suddenly much more spirited. Wennerström had consecrated himself to “fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal—it was business.”[...][Larsson’s] background involved the unique bonding that comes Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-90030287885557631492008-12-23T07:46:00.000-08:002009-12-15T07:42:39.152-08:00Last Orders at the Cafe RoyalThe last of the tea and toast has been taken, the waiters, caterers and cloakroom attendants have all gone home, and a part of the capital city's social history has closed. The Café Royal, where Winston Churchill waited anxiously to know his political future, and Oscar Wilde began the quarrel that ruined him, has served its final cream tea. Military takeover of US in Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-33940574158500898822008-12-16T09:05:00.000-08:002009-12-15T07:40:36.485-08:00Tom's 10 for todayCIA in MinnesotaWhat did I tell you about my ‘Turn on your headlights!’ cop warning?Glaringly unmentioned (but everywhere obvious) is the factor of US corporate corruptionForget the US and fend for yourselfInconspicuous consumptionUS: Despicably lacking in a sense of humor Fight the banksAssault with a Rueben, charge enhanced with mustardDefinition and official spelling of Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-85072405938307980882008-11-29T10:11:00.000-08:002008-11-29T10:50:37.495-08:00End of everythingEnd of the bluefin tunaCharlie the Tuna, representative of StarKist Tuna, made his first appearance in a TV commercial for StarKist, in 1961.He has starred in over 85 Television commercials, always trying to learn good taste. But the answer is always: "Sorry, Charlie. StarKist wants tuna that tastes good, not tuna with good taste." (Wikipedia)End of the silverback gorillasEnd of Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-77693779871118596932008-11-26T07:39:00.000-08:002008-11-26T09:51:12.742-08:00Tesla Sportster Expensive way to save on gas Fine. Americans love another museum destination. But they worship their innovators (look at Henry Ford: the guy was an anti-Semite, he was Big Brother's father when it came to meddling in employees' private lives, and he had a soft spot for Hitler, yet he's still revered as an American hero). So I was surprised to read Daniel Lyons, Newsweek's Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-68223541631070044172008-10-01T05:31:00.000-07:002008-10-25T11:54:25.906-07:00Welfare for the rich…A new paper by the US Institute for Policy Studies shows that, through a series of cunning tax and accounting loopholes, the US spends $20bn a year subsidising executive pay. By disguising their professional fees as capital gains rather than income, for example, the managers of hedge funds and private equity companies pay lower rates of tax than the people who clean their Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-71759023033502187022008-09-25T17:42:00.000-07:002008-09-25T18:27:23.184-07:00It turns out greed is not so good A reader and Joe Bageant stare over precipiceLet's make a little wager. How long will it take before Social Security is privatized in order to "save Social Security?" Which by sheer coincidence would also pour billions more into Wall Street hands.Pisses me off. I was counting on Social Security. I just filed for it last month. I'm sure I will get a check all Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-84356914655552075112008-09-19T05:37:00.000-07:002008-10-01T03:38:02.679-07:00 'Nervous Nellie' wasn't a woman;he was a Republican appointeeWall Street's bad dream Consumers are already twitchy in America, where bank failures are rising and the nation’s deposit-insurance fund faces a potential shortfall. The failure of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a troubled thrift, could at the worst wipe out as much as half of what remains in the fund, reckons Dick Bove of Ladenburg Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-75854502133543969582008-09-18T04:28:00.000-07:002008-09-18T08:55:16.519-07:00Corporate pigs race to troughThe American Way: rob poor to save rich I read the whole thing. The article from the always self-interested, system-friendly Wall Street Journal was tougher than many other articles pouring out of the mainstream news organizations , but there was clearly still a lot of bald-faced soft-pedaling going on.For instance, there was: -- No mention of criminal prosecutions. Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-56968124619582104302008-09-16T08:28:00.000-07:002008-09-16T13:54:08.639-07:00Living cheaply; why you'll have toThe increased exercise is really starting to have a positive effect on me, though, as all those energising endorphins kick in. Studies have shown that cycling for at least 30 minutes a day gives you a level of fitness equivalent to being 10 years younger. I'm cycling nearly two hours a day at the moment, 82 miles so far this week, so if I keep this up I'll be fitTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-47570828065876907402008-09-15T05:45:00.000-07:002008-09-15T07:14:02.752-07:00Wall Street, reality iceberg collide In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street’s history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself on Sunday to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening financial crisis, while another prominent securities firm, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy protection and hurtled toward liquidation after it failed to find a buyer.The humbling moves, Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-50923606796303279122008-09-13T07:59:00.000-07:002008-09-13T08:22:25.219-07:00Today’s picksFuneral homes in the newsThis should inspire some horror movie scripts9/11 heroes breakfast from paper plates at funeral homeWedding, dinner, dance at funeral homeFor a behind-the-scenes look at the funeral business, consider reading this.And, for the environmentally conscientious, here are some suggestions on how to green your funeral.Then, too, there is always composting.Meanwhile,Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-64157162285994793522008-09-12T04:30:00.000-07:002008-09-12T04:57:34.579-07:00Greenpeace verdict falloutWhat is particularly galling for the backers of coal-fired power stations is that, because of the amount of damage alleged to have been done at Kingsnorth, the case went to a jury rather than a magistrate. The crown prosecution service and many corporations know that campaigners who challenge the law by non-violent action are being regularly acquitted by juries. In the Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-46035387605390985812008-09-11T09:13:00.000-07:002008-09-11T10:31:25.614-07:00Jury sides with environmentThis jury verdict will certainly have an impact in Britain, but also could have a psychological impact worldwide. The Independent/UK reported Sept. 11, 2008 that: The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-20720694597673306462008-09-10T05:55:00.000-07:002008-09-10T15:02:27.944-07:00New format (beta) and a hippie surpriseRATHER than send you many suggested links separately, I thought I would start sending them in one package so you would only get one email from me per day. With luck, you'll get even fewer. This is how they would arrive (beta):Fannie, Freddie takeover ‘farcical’|Financial SenseThe ‘board-up' guys|MSNBCSavers are suckers|Business WeekThe Harvard School of Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-69101914308592739562008-05-05T05:49:00.000-07:002008-09-11T08:29:09.527-07:00Shakespeare plays written by committee!? When Mark Rylance announced he was resigning as founding director of Shakespeare's Globe, many in the world of theatre were left utterly perplexed.After a decade of directing and starring in a series of acclaimed productions, he gave almost no explanation when he left the London theatre in 2005, saying merely that it was "time to move on".Now, after years Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-62307314494844997572008-05-01T17:38:00.000-07:002008-05-03T10:45:55.931-07:00'No Business Like Show Business'Same on Pianola #7Irving Berlin: 'There's No Business Like Show Business'Lyrics and Chords[ F#dim7 = ; Fm6 = ]The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerkAre secretly unhappy men becauseThe butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerkGet paid for what they do but no applauseThey'd gladly bid their dreary jobs goodbyeFor anything theatrical, and why?/ C B7 Bbmaj7 Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-35395337497118420572008-04-23T21:04:00.001-07:002008-04-23T21:09:02.867-07:00Edith Piaf, 'L'Accordeoniste':Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-1121425964759140472008-04-21T07:18:00.000-07:002008-04-21T07:43:40.826-07:00Times do and don't changeSkateboarding merit badge? Why not a Goth makeup merit badge?Rise in scouting reported.When they say they are seeking more “adult scout leaders” they must be thinking of “adults” as being anywhere from 22 to 29, wear their baseball caps backwards and have tattoos.Bread, wine most ethical answer to water depletionThe concept of water footprints – or "virtual water" – will Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-54896584760762467182008-04-17T03:17:00.000-07:002008-04-17T03:24:15.769-07:00Lizabeth Scott, 'Don't call it love' Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-29693234871852414132008-03-27T04:56:00.000-07:002008-03-27T05:01:43.377-07:00Spain's property market meltdownSpain's once-booming property market is in freefall, official statistics have revealed for the first time.The announcement that house sales had plunged has dashed government hopes for a "soft landing" in the sector that has driven the Spanish economy for more than a decade.The buying and selling of homes fell by 27 per cent in January compared with the same period Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-67737244460472776602008-03-27T03:04:00.001-07:002008-03-27T05:11:06.141-07:00Age concerns ground many flights American Airlines announced the cancellations Wednesday morning of approximately 200 flights, all involving large MD-80 jets. Each craft holds some 170 passengers, meaning that travel was interrupted for tens of thousands of people across the country.American Airlines uses 300 MD-80 planes, which are on average 18 years old. The oldest MD-80 still used began Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-34756743603490644302008-03-26T16:39:00.000-07:002008-03-27T05:10:00.520-07:00Global 'Great Depression' expected But are things really that different almost 80 years later? For instance, the popping of major asset bubbles almost defines a recession by itself. And one can argue that the 1930s collapse of the banking system is the consequence, or reflection of the real economy, rather than its cause. So saving one insolvent institution isn’t going to prevent the unraveling Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-9031632808629332552008-03-26T06:30:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:55:19.845-07:00Rich live longer; candidates like it that way Nancy Krieger, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, has found that trends in life expectancy have paralleled the decrease or increase in social inequality over the last four decades. Kreiger ,who investigated the rate of premature mortality—dying before the age of 65—and infant death from 1960 to 2002, told the Times that inequities Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-63371259463075806532008-03-02T03:13:00.000-08:002008-03-02T03:16:34.186-08:00Oh, Careless LoveDelta Jazz Band of Argentina with Maria Eugenia Castro singing.Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-48125564232036289442008-02-24T07:06:00.000-08:002008-02-24T07:16:24.312-08:00Pakis party over provincial poll returns It is not exactly “Beach Blanket Babylon,” but the people in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier got back to boogeyin’ after the latest election.In the bazaars and on the streets, change is already visible - and audible. Though the Islamic law bill that the hardliners passed in the provincial parliament was blocked at national level, the clerics were able to Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-48855160452181484112008-02-17T09:29:00.000-08:002008-02-17T09:35:10.078-08:00Oh, for the glamorous life of dissipation and theft With effort and cleverness, one can lose $4 million at the track. --Meanwhile, the risk of art theft grows as items disappear.This keeps some philanthropy groups are worried.Don't worry. It’s happening here, too, as cops recoverstolen LA statue.Of course, there is a lighter side of the issue, there is also Lovejoy to watch or to read in the Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-86170580010211382652008-01-06T18:50:00.000-08:002008-01-07T18:08:01.536-08:00New Year's event; big wind, some damage There were many long-time attendees at the annual New Year's Day event at the Mazerolle home as well as some first-timers.The traditional Japanese food layout along with the Christmas items were very well done. Kudos to the hostess, Michele. All of the dishes guests have come to expect at the celebration were on display: lobster and crab, chicken and Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-53846078687771007492007-09-30T08:36:00.000-07:002007-09-30T09:15:01.818-07:00World headlinesAl Jazeera: Ukrainians go to polls, no winner expectedAl Jazeera:‘Free Burma!’ with every purchaseTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-56773362755629306252007-09-29T08:29:00.001-07:002007-09-30T09:13:17.826-07:00Burmese days Pix of Burma demos: Japanese newsphotog down, dead.Freelancer Richard Erlich: Myanmar's blogs of blood.‘Dawn’ in Myanmar: girl witness frightened, blogs anyway.How they got us into Iraq: Propaganda masterpiece--See? As Gary (Sick) describes the personality of Ahmydinnerjacket, I'm reminded of a certain G.Bush, resident of the Oval office. Does anybody know the Farsi for "Bring 'em onTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-51848646097800154172007-08-26T16:21:00.001-07:002007-09-29T16:06:52.017-07:00Vera Lynn: I'm Yours Sincerely, and, most importantly, We’ll Meet AgainTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-12019139483218967102007-08-24T18:23:00.001-07:002007-09-29T16:10:47.719-07:00CARE blunts food as policy weapon One of the largest international aid organizations in the world turned the food aid industry on its head recently by declaring that they will turn down 46 million dollars in food subsidies from the U.S. government.The United States budgets 2 billion dollars a year in food aid, which buys U.S. crops to feed populations facing starvation amidst crisis or those thatTom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-88664848328489565542007-08-23T19:41:00.000-07:002007-09-04T08:15:44.322-07:00Hightower has lowdown on subprime One of the most dramatic stories from the New Testament is of the time that Jesus encountered money changers in the temple. Enraged by their usury and sacrilege, he went on a tear -- overturning their tables, physically driving them out and chastising them for converting the temple into a "den of robbers." The Bible doesn't say where these bloodsucking lenders Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-78605140384787214412007-08-19T07:34:00.000-07:002007-08-20T06:47:20.848-07:00Arctic sea ice at record low ... and still melting WASHINGTON (AP) 8/17/07 - There was less sea ice in the Arctic on Friday than ever before on record, and the melting is continuing, the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center reported."Today is a historic day," said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. "This is the least sea ice we've ever seen in the satellite Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310483.post-31459514783482564182007-08-18T07:37:00.000-07:002007-08-18T07:55:33.384-07:00‘The Shepherdess’… ... on the erhu Now, the erhu – which is Chinese Mandarin for “two string” – ‘er’ = two; ‘hu’ = string – makes beautiful music in its own cultural setting. But does not translate well into western music.Here is is, same artist, same instrument, only now it is being used to play Paul Anka’s "My Way"This may be an unfair comparison of course, because "My Way" is a truly awful Tom Nadeaunoreply@blogger.com0