http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74257 <pre>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/5383230/Early-Hitchcock-film-found -in-NZ A rare early film from Alfred Hitchcock that was unearthed in New Zealand has been labelled "priceless" by historians of the suspense master. The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive found part of Alfred Hitchcock's 1923 film &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Shadow_%28film%29&gt; The White Shadow following an international search. It is considered to be the earliest feature film for which the celebrated director is credited. Hitchcock, who was just 24 at the time, was the writer, assistant director, editor and production designer on the melodrama. The lost film starred Betty Compson as twin sisters - one good, and the other "without a soul". The New Zealand Film Archive announced today that the film turned up among a cache of unidentified American nitrate prints held in the archive for the last 23 years. However, only the first three reels of the six-reel feature have been found an</pre> Andrew Irwin 2011-08-03T05:39:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74256 <pre>SF author John Scalzi tackles belief and believers (two related but distinct things). I always find it fascinating to read the specific nuance that thinkers have for their thoughts. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/01/the-belief-schism/ The Belief Schism Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |* * </pre> Johne Cook 2011-08-01T16:06:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74255 <pre>http://www.allsouls.org/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=273279 John Stott died in his retirement home at St. Barnabas College at 3.15pm on Wednesday 27th July. He was surrounded by Frances Whitehead, and a number of good friends. They were reading the Scriptures and listening to Handel's Messiah when he peacefully went to be with his Lord and Saviour. Various tributes on the page follow... ---------------------- I've been reading a lot of his books recently, and I'm going through The Cross of Christ chapter by chapter with a friend. A very wise and well thought out man, finally seeing his Lord, Saviour Father and friend face to face. ----------------------- Andrew Irwin </pre> Andrew Irwin 2011-07-27T22:06:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74241 <pre>Some people mark the changing of time by the seasons, others, by the beginning and ending of sports calenders. I mark the passage of time by how often I am 'volunteered' to fix Alicia's laptop. Alicia is sort of related. She is the younger sister of Mike Badtke, the husband of my daughter, Ashlei. Alicia recently graduated from High School, which means she still hangs onto the self delusion that she knows everything. The fact that her mother, Cindy, approaches me on a semi-annual basis to fix the laptop simply side-steps the issue, I think. Alicia doesn't have to confess her ignorance or her (fairly common) internet indiscretions, and I don't have to rub her nose in it. Cindy loves her daughter, and I don't mind playing the geeky hero on occasion. I was approached on Saturday to help Alicia get her new iPod Touch to work with the laptop on Saturday. The presenting problem was simple: the iPod could not be connected to iTunes, because iTunes wasn't connecting to the iTunes store. I noticed that she had thre</pre> Johne Cook 2011-07-25T19:27:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74235 <pre>http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110720/REVIEWS/110729997 Captain America * BY ROGER EBERT / * July 20, 2011 Cast &amp; Credits Capt America/Steve Rogers Chris Evans&lt;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&amp;SearchType=1&amp;q=Chris%20Evans&amp;Class=%25&amp;FromDate=19150101&amp;ToDate=20111231&gt; Peggy Hayley Atwell Bucky Sebastian Stan Col Phillips Tommy Lee Jones&lt;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&amp;SearchType=1&amp;q=Tommy%20Lee%20Jones&amp;Class=%25&amp;FromDate=19150101&amp;ToDate=20111231&gt; Schmidt/Red Skull Hugo Weaving&lt;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&amp;SearchType=1&amp;q=Hugo%20Weaving&amp;Class=%25&amp;FromDate=19150101&amp;ToDate=20111231&gt; Howard Dominic Cooper Dr Erskine &lt;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&amp;SearchType=1&amp;q=Stanley%20Tucci&amp;Class=%25&amp;FromDate=19150101&amp;ToDate=20111231&gt;Stanley Tucci&lt;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&amp;Sea</pre> Johne Cook 2011-07-21T18:24:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74225 <pre>Cop: I think you are driving drunk. Driver: No, I'm not, give me a breathalyzer Cop: No we don't like those anymore, pee in this cup. Driver: What? You can't make me pee in a cup. Cop: Off to jail with you buddy and kiss your license goodbye. Brave new world we got ourselves. Mike F. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: TheNewspaper &lt;sharedarticle-Tdrh2E+Ad1PH3Z/rdEEG2A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; To: mdfindlay-rphTv4pjVZMJGwgDXS7ZQA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Sent: Fri, July 8, 2011 12:17:19 PM Subject: Updates from TheNewspaper.com TheNewspaper Updates from TheNewspaper.com ________________________________ Minnesota: Appeals Court Expands DUI Implied Consent Reach Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:59 AM PDT Anyone accused by a police officer in Minnesota of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) can be compelled to produce a urine sample without a warrant, according to a June 27 decision by the state court of appeals. A three-judge panel weighed the case of Kim Marie Ellingson who had been stopped for spee</pre> Mike Findlay 2011-07-08T17:22:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74224 <pre>http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-30-2011/moral-kombat Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |* * </pre> Johne Cook 2011-07-02T02:37:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74223 <pre>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/opinion/27douthat.html June 26, 2011 By ROSS DOUTHAT In 1990, the economist Amartya Sen published an essay in The New York Review of Books with a bombshell title: “More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing.” His subject was the wildly off-kilter sex ratios in India, China and elsewhere in the developing world. To explain the numbers, Sen invoked the “neglect” of third-world women, citing disparities in health care, nutrition and education. He also noted that under China’s one-child policy, “some evidence exists of female infanticide.” The essay did not mention abortion. Twenty years later, the number of “missing” women has risen to more than 160 million, and a journalist named Mara Hvistendahl has given us a much more complete picture of what’s happened. Her book is called “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.” As the title suggests, Hvistendahl argues that most of the missing females weren’t </pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-28T19:20:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74220 <pre>http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4199/28/ with Mark and his guests David Arnold, Don Black and Tim Rice Steyn on People Saturday, 25 June 2011 For the first of our summer audio specials, we celebrate the work of James Bond's music man and the composer who defined the sound of spy music. John Barry died earlier this year, and we had so much response to Mark's 007 double-bill Song of the Week that he decided it would be nice to hear a bit more of the music, and also some of the stories behind it from John's friends and colleagues. So to discuss the Barry style Mark rounded up two Oscar-winning lyricists and a composer. All three were part of the big memorial concert last Monday night at the Royal Albert Hall in London, so, if you couldn't get tickets, we hope you'll dial up our podcast as the next best thing: Tim Rice and Don Black were guests on our Christmas Show two years ago, when they touched briefly on their Bond songs. Tim is best-known as the lyricist of Evita, Aladdin and The Lio</pre> Peter T. Chattaway 2011-06-28T07:54:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74217 <pre>OK, you probably all received an invitation to Yahoo Groups. Ignore it. While I remain List Czar, I have made the command decision to migrate to Google Groups instead. It provides an experience much more like what we're used to, simple messages conducive to discussions, without a bunch of useless clutter. I've already moved the 16 people that subscribed to Yahoo Groups. I'll see if I can't send Google Groups invites to the remaining people. (Apologies if you get a duplicate invitation if you're already a member.) We've got two months before thehood.us expires. Let's aim for a completed transition in one month, the end of July. In the meantime, try to start using the Google Groups address (dadl-ot-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org) for starting new discussions. </pre> Bruce Geerdes 2011-06-27T17:39:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74211 <pre>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Following are ticket sales for the top 10 movies at the North American box office for the June 24-26 weekend, according to studio estimates issued Sunday. Final data will be issued Monday. [***] 1 (+) Cars 2 .......................... $68.0 million 68.0 million [***] 2 (+) Bad Teacher ..................... $31.0 million 31.0 million [***] 3 (1) Green Lantern ................... $18.4 million 89.3 million [***] 4 (2) Super 8 ......................... $12.1 million 95.2 million [***] 5 (3) Mr. Popper's Penguins ........... $10.3 million 39.4 million [***] 6 (4) X-Men: First Class ............... $6.6 million 132.8 million [***] 7 (5) The Hangover Part II ............. $5.9 million 243.9 million [***] 8 (7) Bridesmaids ...................... $5.4 million 146.7 million [***] 9 (8) Pirates of the Caribbean: ... .... $4.7 million 229.1 million [***] 10(9) Midnight in Paris ................ $4.5 million 28.6 million NOTE: Last</pre> Peter T. Chattaway 2011-06-27T02:45:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74205 <pre>The first e-mail address I ever got was the one I'm using now, at UBC. I got it back in 1994, after coming home from an archaeological trip to the U.K. and getting the addresses of all the people there who had expressed interest in keeping in touch. I still have some of those addresses in my address list, even though I haven't sent anything to those people or received anything from them in over a decade. But anyhoo. Lately, UBC has been dropping hints that it will abandon the Netinfo / Interchange e-mail system that they've been using since whenever. And I just noticed that the my.ubc.ca website includes a message now saying that this changeover will happen in August, at least for students. It is not clear to me how, or when, this will affect alumni accounts such as mine. But, after holding on to this account for so long, just for sheer purposes of momentum and continuity, I now find myself thinking I will probably need a new e-mail account in the next few months, and I will probably have </pre> Peter T. Chattaway 2011-06-25T19:24:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74204 <pre>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270460/speechworld-vs-realworld-mark-steyn The widening gulf between Obama’s rhetoric and reality June 25, 2011 7:00 A.M. The Democrats seem to have given up on budgets. Hey, who can blame them? They’ve got a ballpark figure: Let’s raise $2 trillion in revenue every year, and then spend $4 trillion. That seems to work pretty well, so why get hung up on a lot of fine print? Harry Reid says the Senate has no plans to produce a budget, but in April the president did give a speech about “a new budget framework” that he said would save $4 trillion over the next twelve years. That would be 2023, if you’re minded to take him seriously. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, did. Last week he asked Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, if he’d “estimated the budget impact of this framework.” “No, Mr. Chairman,” replied Director Elmendorf, deadpan. “We don’t estimate speeches. We need much more specificity than</pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-25T18:56:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74203 <pre>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270492/reincarceration-conrad-black-mark-steyn June 25, 2011 7:02 A.M. By Mark Steyn I am overseas at the moment and have just caught up on the coverage of Judge Amy St Eve’s decision yesterday to send my old boss (and now NRO colleague) Conrad Black back to jail. Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of the “honest services” basis of his conviction, Conrad was released from prison in Florida, after serving two years, to await re-sentencing. Given that he was, in effect, improperly convicted on the majority of charges, a civilized and humane justice system would have concluded that it was both absurd and vindictive to return him to his cell for the one shred of the United States Government’s case that has not been tossed out along the way in Conrad’s seven year battle. But the Department of Justice is not civilized and humane. As I wrote here: The federal justice system is a bit like one of those unmanned drones President Obama is so fond of usi</pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-25T18:46:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74202 <pre>http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=8d23afb9-b64a-4ebc-b4b2-79f48bb69c66 Friday, June 24, 2011 HH: Joined as we are when we are lucky on Thursdays by Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. You can read all of Mark’s work at www.steynonline.com. Mark, I’m very frustrated with you this week, because my computer audio wouldn’t work, and I see a video of you in a hunting jacket, taking it off into a very natty suit, talking to the Australians about…what was that all about? MS: I did a special video speechette for Australia’s most prominent political columnist, Andrew Bolt, who’s facing a hate speech type situation similar to what I faced in Canada. And I began with, I thought as I was speaking to them direct from New Hampshire, I ought to begin with…you know that moment in, I think it’s the beginning of Goldfinger, where Bond comes up out of the sea? HH: (laughing) MS: …and he’s in a wetsuit. HH: Yes. MS: And he peels off the wetsuit, and he’s got an immaculate tuxedo, I belie</pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-25T17:59:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74201 <pre>So after years of making friends with woman, thinking there is something more, asking them for coffee and getting turned down I signed up at an NZ based internet dating site 3 weeks ago. I signed up because when I had my surgery just over a month ago, the night after was very bad, bleeding, pain, uncomfortable bandages, throwing up, really needing to pee but unable to. In the middle of it a nurse asked there was anything specific I wanted. I thought for a moment and realised what I really wanted in this earth was for there to be a woman I loved, for me to know that she loved me back and for her to just put her arms around me and tell me her version of "there, there, it's going to be all right". Instead of saying that, I asked for a lozenge because the breathing tube had scraped by vocal cords and I was very sore there too. (I assume it was the breathing tube, unless they removed the hemmoiroids the long way) Over the next week I looked around my entire social life and realised there was no hope there. My </pre> Andrew Irwin 2011-06-25T06:17:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74198 <pre>http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/06/24/actor-peter-falk-dies.html I didn't know he has been suffering from alzheimers/dementia. That is sad. Although everyone knows him from Columbo, my favorite role by far was as Der Filmstar in Wings of Desire. Such a wistful, kind and endearing performance. Mike F. </pre> Mike Findlay 2011-06-24T21:17:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74185 <pre> bruce.geerdes-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org has invited you to join dadl-ot [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dadl-ot/] on Yahoo! 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To d</pre> dadl-ot moderator 2011-06-24T13:58:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74182 <pre>http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/the-huntsman-candidacy/ by Ross Douthat June 22, 2011, 2:13 pm Can a moderate Republican win the G.O.P. nomination? That’s the question everyone’s asking with regard to Jon Huntsman, who formally announced his candidacy yesterday, and the answer is a resounding yes. From George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole through George W. Bush and John McCain, the modern-day Republican Party has a long tradition of picking nominees whose records and positions place them to the left of True Conservatism, at least as defined by movement institutions, talk radio and the like. Even in the age of the Tea Party, there’s reason to imagine this pattern persisting: Many Republican primary voters hold heterodox positions (for instance, on tax increases on the rich) relative to the official conservative line, several of the crucial early primaries allow independents to cross over and vote, and in races against incumbent presidents there’s a high premium on electability. It’s certainly</pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-24T05:30:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74180 <pre>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270312/geert-wilders-acquitted-mark-steyn June 23, 2011 8:21 A.M. By Mark Steyn Geert Wilders has been acquitted of all charges at his show trial in Amsterdam: The court ruled that some of Wilders’ statements were insulting, shocking and on the edge of legal acceptibility, but that they were made in the broad context of a political and social debate on the multi-cultural society. “On the edge of legal acceptability,” eh? As for the latter part — “the broad context of a political and social debate” — the genius “jurists” are effectively conceding what I said when this racket got going — that the Dutch state was attempting to criminalize the political platform of a popular opposition party. That’s the sort of thing free societies should leave to Mubarak &amp; Co, and even then, you can only get away with it for a while before people draw the obvious conclusion. Nevertheless, as in all these cases, the process is the punishment. The intent is t</pre> Peter Chattaway 2011-06-24T05:11:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot/74158 <pre>With the level of unemployment in the US, I'm surprised. ===== http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/22/georgias-anti-immigr.html Georgia's anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields&lt;http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/22/georgias-anti-immigr.html&gt; Cory Doctorow &lt;http://www.boingboing.net/author/cory-doctorow-1/&gt; at 8:44 AM Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 Georgia's tough anti-illegal-immigrant law drove a sizable fraction of the migrant labor pool out of the state, and as a result, "millions of dollars' worth of blueberries, onions, melons and other crops [are] unharvested and rotting in the fields." The jobs the migrants did paid an average of $8/hour, without benefits, a wage that is so low that the state's probationed prisoners have turned it down. Guest-writing in the *Atlantic's* economics section, Adam Ozimek doesn't believe that the farms would be viable&lt;http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/georgias-harsh-immigration-law-costs-millions-in-unharvested-crops/240774/&gt; if they</pre> James 2011-06-23T17:55:08 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.music.dadl.ot