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dj, I didn't see the film nor have I heard that specific song by Three Dog Night, but I do know that they got their name because of the fact that it takes three dogs to keep one warm on a cold winter's night. I like them.

Rex, I continue to be amazed at how talented you are, buddy. That was a beautiful song, and you did it so well. Great intonation, Maine. I particularly liked the chord changes and your voice is perfect for that type song. I don't think that I have ever heard a banjo played with such subtlety. Great early morning listening for Letty during her quiet time.

News update:



German Plane With Katrina Aid Turned Back By CLAUDIA KEMMER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Sep 10,11:18 AM ET



BERLIN - A German military plane carrying 15 tons of military rations for survivors of Hurricane Katrina was sent back by U.S. authorities, officials said Saturday.



The plane was turned away Thursday because it did not have the required authorization, a German government spokesman said.

The spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, declined to comment on a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel that U.S. authorities refused the delivery on the grounds that the NATO military rations could carry mad cow disease.

The spokesman said U.S. authorities had since given approval for future aid flights, but it was unclear whether the German military would try again to deliver the rations.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the United States, many international donors have complained of frustration that bureaucratic entanglements have hindered shipments to the United States.

A U.S. Embassy official, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not quoted by name, blamed the German flight's rejection on temporary technical and logistical problems that have accompanied recovery operations in the devastated region.

German military planes have flown several loads of rations to the Gulf Coast. Berlin is also sending teams equipped with high-capacity pumps to help clear floodwaters.

Simply do NOT understand the red tape, folks.

Carl Zeiss
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816 - December 3, 1888) was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Zeiss. Zeiss himself also made a few contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses. Raised in Weimar Germany, he became a notable lens maker in the 1840's when he created high quality lenses that were "wide open", or in other words, had a very large aperture range that allowed for very clear images. He did this in the city of Jena at a self opened workshop, where he started his lens making career. At first his lenses were only used in the production of microscopes but when cameras were invented, his company (Zeiss) began manufacturing high quality lenses for cameras. He died on December 3, 1888 in Jena Germany, the very place that he began his life of lenses.


Youth

Zeiss began his life in Weimar, Germany where he went to a grammar school, and undertook apprenticeship under Dr. Friedrich Körne, mechanic and supplier to the court. He later attended lectures in math, experimental physics, anthropology, mineralogy and optics at Jena University. After seven years he opened a small workshop by himself with hardly any tools. He made many lenses but had little recognition until 1847 when he hired his first apprentice. The very same year his former master, Dr. Körne died, inspiring Zeiss to devote his life to working in the area of microscopes.


His Life

In 1847 Carl Zeiss started making microscopes full-time. His first innovation was making simpler microscopes that only used one lens, and were therefore only intended for dissecting work. He sold around 23 of them in his first year of production. He soon decided that he needed a new challenge so he began making compound microscopes. He first created the Stand I which went to market in 1857.

In 1861 he was awarded a gold medal at the Thuringain Industrial Exhibition for his designs. They were considered to be among the best scientific instruments in Germany. By this point he had about 20 people working under him with his business still growing all the time. In 1866 the Zeiss workshop sold their 1000th microscope. He then continued on for a few years, and assumed he had reached his fullest potential, but he met Dr. Ernst Abbe, a physicist that he joined up with in 1872. Their combined efforts lead to the discovery of the Abbe sine condition.
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During this period, Zeiss made his best lenses that he ever had up to this point. Theoretically, the Abbe sine condition could greatly improve just how good lens quality could get. The problem was, there wasn't a type of glass that was strong enough to fully test the theory out.
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Luckily, Dr. Ernst Abbe soon met Otto Schott, a 30 year old glass chemist who had just gotten his doctorate. They collaborated together, and soon produced a new type glass in 1886 that could fully use the Abbe sine condition. This new type of glass paved the way for a new microscope objective: apochromates. Zeiss used water immersion to form a compensating eyepiece which produced images with little or no color distortion.

That was what Zeiss had tried to make during his whole life and it was quite timely that he achieved his goal when he did. A mere two years after he made his amazing new microscope, he died of natural causes on December 3, 1888.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss

Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma (born September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American film director.

De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the Movie Brat generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate. His contemporaries include Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, John Milius, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Throughout the '70s and early '80s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen (his wife from 1979 to 1983), William Finley, Garrett Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond, set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donaggio. De Palma is credited with fostering the careers of or outright discovering Robert De Niro, Jill Clayburgh, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Margot Kidder.

Early efforts Greetings and Hi, Mom espouse a Leftist revolutionary viewpoint common of their era, and experiments in narrative and intertextuality reflect De Palma's stated intention to become the "American Godard." Hi, Mom, in its Be Black, Baby sequence, parodies cinema verite, championed by the documentary movement of the late '60s, while simultaneously providing the audience with as visceral and disturbingly emotional an experience as fiction film can provide, and remains a significant touchstone in interpreting De Palma's filmography.

Following a disastrous Hollywood foray, in which his next film Get to Know Your Rabbit was reedited by Warner Bros., De Palma returned to independent film. Both Blood Sisters and Phantom of the Paradise were tongue-in-cheek experiments in pure cinema, and allowed De Palma to jettison the more dated hippy trappings of his earlier films. Obsession, an emotional alternative take on Vertigo scripted by Paul Schrader, seems less now a bold attempt to usurp Alfred Hitchcock than an extention of the experiment begun on Blood Sisters, using the Hitchcock film as a template to analyze male and female roles and how an audience expects them to be reinforced.

His works explore themes of suspense and obsession, along with gender identity and the destructive nature of the male gaze. He is famous for his extensive use of split screen, split-diopter and process shots, and long tracking shots. His films also frequently feature characters changing their hair colour from blonde to brunette and vice versa.

Critics of De Palma accuse him of being misogynistic and of emphasizing technical aspects of storytelling at the expense of human stories. These views, along with the charge of 'ripping off' various filmmakers, is slowly fading from mainstream critical analysis of De Palma's work, as the complexities of his montage and mise en scene come into focus. Emerging views of De Palma compare him less and less with modernist filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock and more with transgressionists such as Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard and to traditions ranging from Surrealism, Postmodernism to the theater of the Absurd.

Trivia

His father, Anthony DePalma, was an orthopedic surgeon and teacher who made a lifelong contribution to the practice of medicine. His oldest brother Bruce De Palma, who passed away in 1997, was a well known figure in the alternative energy community, while Bart De Palma is an artist who contributed photographic mosaics (and a cameo appearance) to Femme Fatale.

DePalma was interested in physics in his youth and won the top prize in his high school's regional science fair. He placed second in the nation in 1957 and 1958. The 1957 project was entitled "The Application of Cybernetics to the Solution of Differential Equations."

An incident involving a stolen motorcycle left De Palma in a New York City jail overnight after a bullet was removed from his leg, courtesy of the NYPD.

He directed Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" music video, and is widely believed to have written the crawl that begins Star Wars.

DePalma refuse to answer from Scarface fans if Pacino really snorted the cocaine, and if the cocaine was real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_de_Palma

Good morning, Bob, and thanks for the bios. I knew all but Carl Zeiss, so this song is for him:


I've been sitting on top of these rocks
Watching the waters rise
Everyone that I have loved has gone floating by
I've been praying for the king of the world to come rescue me
From a land that's lost in dreams
From a land that's lost in dreams

Are you waiting for the heavens
Are you waiting for the heavens to descend
Waiting for the depend, the depend, the depend
Are you waiting for the heavens
Are you waiting for the heavens to descend
Waiting for the depend, the depend, the depend

I've been looking through microscopes to see how our life begins
I've been training my lens on the stars to see where it ends
But it's this living in between that's bringing me down
To a land that's lost in dreams
To a land that's lost in dreams
To a land that's lost in dreams

Are you waiting for the heavens
Are you waiting for the heavens to descend
Waiting for the depend, the depend, the depend
Are you waiting for the heavens
Are you waiting for the heavens to descend
Waiting for the depend, the depend, the depend.

Loved all of O'Henry's short stories.

Hey, Boston, be sure and tell us about last night's karaoke.

Good Morning, WA2K!

Thanks for the bios, Bob. My favorite O. Henry was The Gift of the Magi. There was an interesting 1952 movie, "O. Henry's Full House", which featured five of his stories. Farley Granger and Jeanne Craine were featured in the "Magi", and Charles Laughton and David Wayne in "The Cop and the Anthem". (Marilyn Monroe appeared briefly as a streetwalker) "The Last Leaf", "The Clarion Call" and "The Ransom of Red Chief", featuring Oscar Levant, were the others. An all-star cast.


O. Henry's reported last words: "Please turn on the light. I don't want to go home in the dark."


Today's birthdays:

1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1825 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic (d. 1904)
1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author (d. 1870)
1862 - O. Henry, writer (d. 1910)

1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
Among his many works, most famous are his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes and perhaps particularly because the lover was working-class, and an obscenity trial followed in Britain. The British publisher, Penguin Books, won the court case that ensued.

1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000) , Governor of Louisiana -

On February 4, 1940, Davis stepped into a recording studio in Chicago to record his composition "You Are My Sunshine." When it was released in March, it became a million-seller and an international hit. Gene Autry and Bing Crosby were among the first of over 350 artists to record the song, which was eventually translated into more than 30 languages. ( officially designated an official state song of Louisiana in 1977. Reportedly, the song was copyrighted under Davis's name.)

1903 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer (d. 1996)
1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru
1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
1927 - G. David Schine, businessman (d. 1996)
1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce, author and activist (d. 2002)
1933 - Susan Sontag, author (d. 2004)
1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Brian de Palma, director
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1942 - Lola Falana, singer
1943 - Mickey Hart, musician
1943 - Gilbert Proesch, musican (Gilbert and George)
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1948 - John Martyn, musician
1950 - Barry Sheene, motorcyclist
1961 - Virginia Madsen, actress
1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
1962 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
1964 - Ellis Burks, baseball player
1964 - Roxann Dawson, actress
1964 - Victor Wooten, musician
1965 - Moby, musician
1965 - Paul Heyman, professional wrestling promoter, manager and writer
1965 - David Roe, Englishsnooker player
1965 - Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., singer
1968 - Kay Hanley, musician
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, singer
1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1977 - Ludacris, rapper
1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School massacre gunman (d. 1999)

After growing up listening to The Cisco Kid ("O Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west") on the radio, I was disappointed when I finally read O Henry's original tale. The Kid was a vile character, an outlaw with no redeeeming qualities. What I found most unforgiveable, the story was predictable as it neared the end; anticlimactic, in fact. I love other O Henry tales, but have always considered that one a failure.

THE ROSE
RONSARD, 1550.

See, Mignonne, hath not the Rose,
That this morning did unclose
Her purple mantle to the light,
Lost, before the day be dead,
The glory of her raiment red,
Her colour, bright as yours is bright?

Ah, Mignonne, in how few hours,
The petals of her purple flowers
All have faded, fallen, died;
Sad Nature, mother ruinous,
That seest thy fair child perish thus
'Twixt matin song and even tide.

Hear me, my darling, speaking sooth,
Gather the fleet flower of your youth,
Take ye your pleasure at the best;
Be merry ere your beauty flit,
For length of days will tarnish it
Like roses that were loveliest.

Thanks, Raggedy, for your celeb updates. D.H. again? Still love the man.

And, of course, O'Henry. Someone whose screen name is Vermont is always asking stuff about him and never coming back to respond to the responses. I still think "Ransom of Red Chief" is a funny story. and Raggedy, those last words of O'Henry's were strange and quite sad.

edgar, O'Henry did "The Cisco Kid"? Well, Texas, I certainly did not know that.

If anyone here has seen O Brother Where Art thou, you will certainly remember "You Are my Sunshine".

Francis, That was an exotic and lovely poem by Ronsard. Thank you so much, Paris. That will be on my mind for the rest of the day.

Well, listeners, edgar sent me to the archives, and I was stunned when I found that O'Henry did indeed do The Cisco Kid in a group of stories called Readers of the Purple Sage. Also, I see that Cisco has been played by many characters in film land(or radio).

As one thing leads to another, folks, I found this little song from Disney:





The Three Caballeros

We're three caballeros
Three gay caballeros
They say we are birds of a feather
We're happy amigos
No matter where he goes
The one, two, and three goes
We're always together

We're three happy chappies
With snappy serapes
You'll find us beneath our sombreros
We're brave and we'll stay so
We're bright as a peso
Who says so? We say so!
The three caballeros

Ahhhh!
We have the stars to guide us
Guitars here beside us
To play as we go
We sing and we samba
We shout 'aye caramba!
What means aya caramba?
Oh yes, I don't know

Through fair or stormy weather
We stand close together
Like books on the shelf
And pals though we may be
When some latin baby
Says yes, no, or maybe
Each man is for himself!

Jalisco no te rajes
Me sale del alma
Gritar con color
Abrir todo el pecho
Pa echar este grito
Que linddo es jalisco
Palabra de honor

Cisco Kid - War

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine
He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine

We met down on the fort of Rio Grande
We met down on the fort of Rio Grande
Eat the salted peanuts out of can
Eat the salted peanuts out the can

The outlaws had us pinned down at the fort
The outlaws had us pinned down at the fort
Cisco came in blastin', drinkin' port
Cisco came in blastin', drinkin' port

They rode the sunset, horse was made of steel
They rode the sunset, horse was made of steel
Chased a gringo last night through a field
Chased a gringo last night through a field

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid he was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid he was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine

The Cisco Kid he was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid he was a friend of mine
The Cisco Kid he was a friend of mine

Well, folks. It sounds as though today is Spanish day. (Thanks, edgar for el cisco. )

So, here's an Italian singing a Spanish song:







I love to roam out yonder

Out where the buffalo wander

Free as the eagle flying I'm a-roping and a-tying



Give me my ranch and my cattle

Far from the greed city's rattle

Give me a big herd to battle

For I just love herding the cattle



I love to roam out yonder

Out where the buffalo wander

Free as the eagle flying I'm a-roping and a-tying

I'm a-roping and a-tying



Give me my bridle and saddle

And my old pinto I'll straddle

I'll get the cowboys a-riding

Out where the rustlers are hiding



I love to roam out yonder

Out where the buffalo wander

Free as the eagle flying I'm a-roping and a-tying

I'm a-roping and a-tying



Sometimes the winter storms tearing

Set all the cattle a rearin'

But when the winter is over

We're sure enough in the clover



Alla en la rancho grande

Alla donde vivia

Habia una ranche rita

Que alegre me decia

Que alegre me decia

I don't know about you, folks, but I think Deano should stick to Italian.

If you ask me what it means, I will have to pretend I didn't hear you.


Trini Lopez


Muñequita

by Trini Lopez
El secondo que te vi
Tu nuncas abraz lo que senti
O mi corazón se estremecio
Por eso quero dar te mi pasión

Muñequita se te vás
Yo no se si puedo existir
Siempre quiero ser tu amigo fiel
Yo te le pido que no seas cruel

Muñequita eres la razón
Que te canto esta canción
Tus besos y tu cara y tu sonrisa
Soy prisioneiro de tu amor

Muñequita tu me haces sentir
Con muchas ganas de vivir
Tu ya no eres mia yo lo se
Muñequita tu ya eres mujer

Cada noche soñarei
Que te tengo cerca muy cerquido el mi
Miro las estrellas a lumbrar
En que me haces siempre recordar

Y se un dia tu te vas
Porque tu tañeste otro amor
Yo nunca te olvidarei
Yo te lo juro que te esperarei

Muñequita eres la razón
Que te canto esta canción
Tus besos y tu cara y tu sonrisa
Soy prisioneiro de tu amor

Muñequita tu me haces sentir
Con muchas ganas de vivir
Tu ya no eres mia yo lo se
Muñequita tu ya eres mujer

Muñequita eres la razón
Que te canto esta canción
Tus besos y tu cara y tu sonrisa
Soy prisioneiro de tu amor

Muñequita tu me haces sentir
Con muchas ganas de vivir
Tu ya no eres mia yo lo se
Muñequita tu ya eres mujer

Na na na na na
Muñequita tu ya eres mujer
Na na na na na
Tu ya eres mi querer
Muñequita tu ya eres mujer

Not to worry, edgar. I have no intentions of asking you what anything means. I've quit doing that! I like Trini Lopez, (I think)

Remember the kid who helped the nun across the street and as she thanked him he said:

Any friend of Zorro is a friend of mine.



Theme from Zorro

Music: Norman Foster
Lyrics: George Bruns

Out of the night when the full moon is bright
Comes the horseman named Zorro
This bold renegade carves a Z with his blade
A Z that stands for Zorro

Zorro...
The fox so cunning and free
Zorro...
Who makes the signs of the Z

He is polite but the wicked take flight
When they catch the sight of Zorro
He's friend of the weak and the poor and the meek
This very unique senor Zorro

Zorro...
The fox so cunning and free
Zorro...
Who makes the signs of the Z

After looking through some of the stuff in our vast audience, I do believe that we can appreciate Coleridge:

Thought for Today: ``I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and author (1772-1834).



09/10/05 20:00

That's right.

"If there's one thing I simply can't stand, it's intolerance."

Not always a joke.

Today I have been listening a bit to Brazilian jazz and bossa nova, in a compilation CD I have.

The Stan Getz/ Jobim collaboration recordings were very nice.

Also Sergio Mendez. I like that, especially from Brasil '66 the song Mais Que Nada.

Can you give that a spin this evening?

Well, hello, McTag. Often tolerance is called objectivity and sometimes, mugwump. Know what that means?

I love Brazil66, Tagger, and per special request, I most certainly will play it for you.

Incidentally, Brit. The name of the shoe was Buster Brown.

and per special request by our man in Manchester:

Oari rai
Ob Ob Ob
Mas que nada
Sai da minha frente
Eu quero passar
Pois o samba est animado
O que eu quero sambar
Este samba
Que misto de maracatu
samba de preto velho
Samba de preto tu
Mas que nada
Um samba como esse to legal
Voc no vai querer
Que eu chegue no final

edgar, will you please translate?