Sun, 30 March 2008  msb-fr-0005 J'ai la Sclérose en Plaques. 'Y a Rien Laintro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Je sais que l'expression oû la phrase "À Moi" n'est pas la bonne parceque c'est normalement utilisée pour indiquer un cri de détresse. Mais si avoir la sclérose en plaque n'est pas une situation de détresse... "eh ben". La musique prend un tour vers le Teutonique aujourd'hui. (J'ai eu des conseils et des renseignements de provenance Allemande récemment et c'es lui qui a choisi la musique. :-) ---- "Ganz Leise feat. Sylvia Gerlach" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "EchtZeit" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Almost Lover - feat. RamsayGee" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ "Thèse:" Vous avez probablement remarqués que les segments en Français sont encore très courts. Mais cette situation ne pourra pas continuer parceque je ratrappe mon Français de plus en plus rapidement et je devrais ètre en mesure de vous casser les oreilles avec mes opinions sur beaucoup de choses qui traite sur la sclérose en plaques. ---- "Propaganda" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ "Synthèse:" Je remarque que mon "Spelling Checker" n'm'est que totallement "in-u-tile". Mon orthographie Française est strictement ce qu'il me reste de mon éducation au Québec d'il y a très, très longtemp déja. Je dois admettre que je depends beaucoup sur tous les avantages que je peut extraire de la technologie. (Et j'ai le nez constamment enfoui dans le "Bescherelle" [ http://www.bescherelle.com/index.php?retour=1 ] et le "Larousse", [ http://www.larousse.fr/#accueil ]) S'il y a un de vous qui a connaissance d'un logiciel pour le Mac pour corriger mon orthophaphe excecrable, envoiez mois un courriel: charles à MSBPodcast.com ---- "System Overload" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ "Conclusion:" Donc, pour le mieux oû pour le pire, mon Français me reviens, petit a petit. Bientôt je devrais vous casser les oreilles avec mon patoi Québecois et mes opinions loufoques. ---- "Jammin" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Ganz Leise feat. Sylvia Gerlach" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "EchtZeit" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Almost Lover - feat. RamsayGee" par: "KLANGSTEIN" http://www.schallkammer.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Propaganda" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "System Overload" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Jammin" par: "Jammin-INC" http://www.jammin-inc.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Direct download: msb-fr-0005_Jai_la_Sclrose_en_Plaques._Y_a_Rien_La.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:17 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 March 2008 msb-0280 Purr fectintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm now testing the crap out of the wiki. But I'm not going to give out the URL just yet. It's got no content and I want to give the Societies and the Chapters a reason to go. ---- Hole...ey crap! Who are you people who just showed up on the site and downloaded like mad? I'll take it was fewer people downloading "all" of the old episodes (But its still and awesome blip to have appear on my stats.) ---- "Fiesta Infernale" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" Okay. I have got some food news for you. I first heard about "BaconSalt" [ http://www.baconsalt.com/ ] on the March 19, 2008 episode "OtakuGeneration" [ http://otakugeneration.libsyn.com/ ] (#145 in case you want to upload it,) and dang if it didn't sound like a great idea. It didn't hurt that the guys were taking boring old plastic-tasting packing pop corn and turning them into baco-licious kernels, and talking about how good it was and munching on 'em and ... Well you get the mouth watering idea. [slurp ... droo-ool!] Now, I'm as curious as the next guy, (okay, maybe a bit more, [okay, okay, a lot more,]) so I got in touch with the makers of Bacon Salt, [ http://www.baconsalt.com/ ] Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow. I bought a variety pack with my own money, so this not a paid promo or product placement or anything like that. They're not a sponsor or anything like that (if only, if only.["sob"]) I'm friends with a chef who shares my opinion of salt, which is that, salt is fine in moderation and to cook with (when it enhances the flavor,) but once the food is cooked, salt just tastes like salt. And salt does all kinds of nasty things to your blood pressure. But what about when the salt is "flavored"? What about when the salt is flavored with "Bacon"? (Hmm, "Baconny baconness.") Now, I'm able to watch my salt intake, but this makes it "worth" watching. No more salting things just because I'm trying to get some flavor out of them, or eating "blah" food. ("Boiling meat" in anything is a terrible thing that I'm convinced only sadists and wastrels do.) This turns anything, heck, everything into something with "baconny goodness". Try some, or try a variety pack like I did, of Bacon Salt, [ http://www.baconsalt.com/ ] and reach your own conclusions. And if you do tell 'em you heard it on the MSBPodcast or write is as a comment on the order. Oh...And this is killer... Its "Kosher" to boot. ---- "Wasserfall" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Melancholie" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ "Thesis:" Ya know, I've been going over some of my old shows and, damn those were good. I may have been worse off (this was back when I was still pissed off, I "hated" self-injection [I still do but now this podcast lets me vent and to hopefully get beyond just venting,] and I still hadn't discovered anything about neuro-plasticity,) but damn, musically those shows were "good". ---- "Brackwasserrezept - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ "Synthesis:" Now I'm "not" taking any "kudos" for the artists. They wrote the songs, played the instruments and sang the words. All I did was gather up the songs into some shows. But it doesn't take away from the fact that those shows sounded great. They sounded so great that I've shuffled the deck and I'm bringing some of the tunes back with some new palaver in between the songs. ---- "Nur der Filter - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ "Conclusion:" Damn. I may have my head firmly planted in my butt psychically but there was nothing wrong with my ears. ---- "Salz in Deinen Augen - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ Outro And this episodes music was brought to you courtesy of Christoph [ http://input.podshow.com/ ] who's a German podcaster who was nice enough to reach out. (Man we're really "world wide.") You'll be hearing some more suggestion by him in later episodes. ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list 'Fiesta Infernale" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Wasserfall" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Melancholie" by: "Susis Maenner" http://www.susismaenner.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Brackwasserrezept - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Nur der Filter - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Salz in Deinen Augen - GermanHipHop" by: "Brackwasser" http://www.brackwasser.de/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 26 March 2008 msb-0279 Connecting. . intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm busy configuring and testing my wiki to get us all connected. I have "no" idea why I put up that YouTube "video" [ http://youtube.com/watch?v=mTkp9UqVVHs ] at the front, except that I'm perverted enough to take pleasure in such a vid. ("You can pick me eight" indeed. :-) ---- "Connected" by: "Al Stravinsky" http://www.soundclick.com/alstravinsky Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "connecting" by: "MAXFIELD" http://www.clashuk.com/cometomaxfield Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Connected" by: "Psykosoul" http://www.myspace.com/psykosoulmusic "Thesis:" It always all about Relationships and Connections. This week Shauna discovers what makes a self-winding watch really tick. ---- "Connect Me" by: "Alan Lauris" http://www.alanlauris.com/ "Synthesis:" Connections I own a self winding watch that doesn't. Last year I took it to a professional for cleaning and a tune up. He got it up and running again, I took it home, wore it for a day and it stopped. I put it in my purse to take back, and when I pulled it out to show him, it was working again. I put it on and a couple of hours later it stopped again. I took it back and was informed that sometimes self winding watches need actual physical winding. I was driving with my mother one day when she noticed a knocking sound in the engine of my car. "You should get that checked out", she said. So I take it in to the mechanic and explain about the noise. "When does it make the noise?" he asked. "When my mom's in the car", was my reply. (You should have seen the look he gave me; no sense of humor) He got in the car with me and we took it for a spin. Of course there was no sound. I have problems with electronic equipment at work. One day I crashed 3 different computers, one just by sitting down next to it. For the longest time I was having anomalous things happen when I was on the air...computer screens going dark, sound monitors in the control room turning themselves off, and the channel for the microphone turning itself off (usually while in the middle of speaking). It turns out I seem to have an inordinate amount of static electricity build-up in my body and simply waving my hand over the board that controls everything on air can turn off a channel. For a while, it seemed that every time an alarm sounded at work (to indicate we were off air), it was my fault somehow. In fact, the head tech guy asked me one day if I had been in Newfoundland over the weekend (another province over where we have a sister station). I said no and asked him why. "Because the transmitter burned down", he said. Over the years I have collected a number of these stories. Maybe they happen with the same frequency for other people but they don't take note of them. Maybe I just notice them because I see connections everywhere. And that is actually the point of this post, if you're still with me. I have been contemplating doing a post on the "connectedness" of things. I can take almost any subject and find a way to relate it to myself. That's how I learn. but while researching "coincidence" and "synchronicity" I came across the Pauli Effect: a tongue-in-cheek reference to the apparently mysterious failure of technical equipment in the presence of certain people, particularly theoretical physicists. It is named after the Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli. The Pauli effect was named after his (Wolfgang Pauli) bizarre ability to break experimental equipment simply by being in the vicinity. Pauli himself was aware of his reputation, and delighted whenever the Pauli effect manifested. (from Wikipedia). OMG!! There's a name for it! The engine sounds disappearing in the presence of a mechanic or the channels and monitors turning themselves off but never in the presence of a tech guy (until finally one day when one happened to be standing right behind me). It's the Pauli Effect. How excited was I to learn about this? Over the moon doesn't even come close. It happens to other people, too! I'm not an idiot! I'm not jinxed! I was thrilled to make this discovery for a couple of reasons. First, it meant that this phenomena is not the universe trying to get me. Second, it turns out that this guy Pauli became a patient and then friend of psychotherapist Carl Jung who's best known for his ideas of a collective unconscious and his theory of synchronicity. Synchronicty! Aha! That's what I was looking for to begin with. Coincidence is a noteworthy occurrence of two or more events or circumstances that don't have an obvious causal connection. For example, my co-worker Mary's birthday is February 28th. Her older sister Christine was a leap year baby. It would be more of a coincidence if they were both born on February 29th, but throughout their lives they have celebrated their birthdays together. Synchronicity is also the occurrence of two or more events or circumstances that don't have an obvious causal connection, but they occur in a meaningful manner. My co-worker's sister, Christine, gave birth last week on February 29th! A leap year baby having a leap year baby! It's not unusual for women to give birth on their birthday, but to give birth on a birthday that only happens once every four years is...synchronous. Over the years I have experienced this type of synchronicity many times. At university during my first year (1980), one of my biology lab partners was Grant, who hailed from Ontario, halfway across the country. I haven't seen him since we graduated in '84, but I met his uncle in 1998. His uncle is my neurologist. Shortly after I was diagnosed I was at the local office of the MS Society and noticed a picture on the wall of a guy who had just finished his term as Pres of the Atlantic Division of the MS Society (or Chairman or some such). He was the brother of a former boyfriend. Even the events surrounding my diagnosis were rather synchronous...I've blogged about it before: The Monkey's Paw and Insert Horseshoe Here. I meet a lot of people in my line of work. Actually, I talk to more people than I meet, but some I do eventually meet face to face. One woman I talked to just before Christmas and I hit it off on the phone, then through e-mail, and finally in person. Kathy just seemed like good people. Turns out, she and I had a person in common, another MSer I knew through MS activities and who Kathy knew through a bible study they both belong to. Kathy and I and our respective significant others (Jane and John[aka Wookie]) got together for dinner a couple of weeks ago. Turns out Jane and a friend of mine from university ( a gazillion years ago) worked together until a few years ago. I attended a university with a rather significant and recognizable school ring. Almost every social occassion I attend there is someone else there with the same ring. We instantly have a connection (even if it's just the rash that sometimes pops up under it). And even if there's no one else with that ring at the event, someone always comments on it to tell me their son or daughter or dad went there. Last week I began putting on paper, so to speak, my ideas about coincidence, and doing some research on the subject while Lost was on TV. That is one interconnected show. Everyone is connected to everyone else even before they ended up on the island together. I realized after last night's episode that this is what attracts me to the show in the first place, and what keeps me getting sucked back in every time I aver to never watch it again. I am waiting for the resolution of how and why everyone is connected. I really want to know. And when discussing this show with a co-worker and my upcoming post about coincidence, he said that with technology moving at the speed it is, it's no wonder the world is getting smaller. More and more connections are being made, even if it is on the internet. Kind of like pen pals, only faster. So what has all this to do with MS? Simple really. I'm looking for the connections we MSers have with each other. And to do that I blog, I volunteer with the MS Society, and I raise funds for research. I also take part in studies relating to this disease because I have GOT to know HOW this disease works. MS is not a magic trick I can figure out or a mechanical device I can learn about. It is an as yet unsolvable logic puzzle. And everything I read, write, or research leads me a little closer to understanding. I don't know why I have MS but I know what to do with it. And I promise to only use this power for good. S. ---- "Disconnected" by: "Katy Pfaffl" http://www.myspace.com/katypfaffl "Conclusion:" Only use this power for good :-) ---- "Soul Connection" by: "RockDownBaby" http://www.myspace.com/rockdownbabyok Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Connected" by: "Al Stravinsky" http://www.soundclick.com/alstravinsky album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "connecting" by: "MAXFIELD" http://www.clashuk.com/cometomaxfield album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Connected" by: "Psykosoul" http://www.myspace.com/psykosoulmusic album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Connect Me" by: "Alan Lauris" http://www.alanlauris.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Disconnected" by: "Katy Pfaffl" http://www.myspace.com/katypfaffl album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Soul Connection" by: "RockDownBaby" http://www.myspace.com/rockdownbabyok album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Tue, 25 March 2008 msb-0278 Iron In My Earsintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... You know what I find incredible is that so many of you come back for this boring auditory abuse. I mean really... I'm humbled. I play some good tunes now and then but, really, I'm humbled. ---- And nobody had better tell me squat about the "French" episodes because those episodes are almost "twice" as popular, getting twice the number of downloads, as the "English" ones for the same amount of time. There is a hunger for, something, in the French speakers. ---- Okay, I'm here again with my MSers to gird my loins like "Finley Peter Dunne" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne ] and getting ready to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" [ more of the quote can be found at: http://www.accd.edu/sac/j-p/comfort.html ]. I am trying not to, but I'm being inevitably drawn into the role of a kind of journalist. On the wiki front, I can report some success..ss..ss. Yess.ss.ss. Now I have to configure the bugger. ("OUCH!") ---- The shows are getting posted up later because I'm having to record them later because the building next door is having its bricks repointed (And they're drilling out the old mortar with this loud, LOUD power-saw reciprocating thing.) ---- "Our Truth" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- Somebody heard me and dropped me an email. (See, you're "not" just listening to the lone rantings of a solitary lunatic, [with kick-ass taste in music. :-]) Manon Husman of "icyou" [ http://www.icyou.com ] dropped me a note telling me of their new service. To quote from the email: "Hello, I am an outreach coordinator for the healthcare website icyou <http://www.icyou.com>. I'm contacting you because March is National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month and we are working to help spread information and raise awareness about MS. icyou is a health-oriented, user-generated video aggregator and content producer covering a wide variety of health topics; everything from video definitions of common diseases and conditions to stories about cancer patients to coverage of health policy and politics. You may be interested in seeing some videos of Lauren Parrott, one of icyou’s contributors who is living with Multiple Sclerosis. You can view these videos and others by clicking on this link [ http://www.icyou.com/search/node/multiple+sclerosis ]. All of our videos are free, and we'd love for you to embed them and feature any of these videos on your website. Our goal is to simply spread the information as far and wide as we can. Also, while we have your attention, we want to let you know that icyou.com makes it easy for anyone to post their own health-oriented video. We'd love for you and your readers to sign up and join our healthcare video community. It's free to join and upload as many videos as you want, and the more voices, the more healthcare information is available and the stronger the community becomes. If you have any questions or comments about these videos or icyou in general, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks very much for your time. Regards, Manon Husman" There you have it folks, (complete with hot links for my iTunes audience!) Got a digital video camera or even a digital camera that can also record video? You can send her email and see if what you might have to say might be relevant. It is certainly important, even if only to you. And if its important to you, who knows who else it might be important to. ---- "HeavensaLie" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Medusas Coil" by: "HIGHLORD" http://www.highlord.it/ "Thesis:" If we were represented proportionally in the media, we should get a little over a minute of air of TV air time per day. (1,440 minutes in a day, 1 in 1,200 people with MS ... Do the math. It works out to 72 seconds a day.) But we're disabled, so we're part of a minority that is so underrepresented that its criminal. When is the last time you turned on your TV so you could watch a show about you and the problems you face as you struggle with MS? How about "nev...ver"? ---- "Closer" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 "Synthesis:" I am angry at the all-too-human tendency to ignore problems until its "half-past-too-late" but I'm realistic enough to not waste my time trying to change it. The mainstream media will forever remain closed to us. (Screw 'em anyway. Who need 'em?) We have the internet and we have podcasting. I've had audio shows, video shows and even put up a PDF to prove that it could distribute all kinds of media. I know my limitations, but they're "my" limitations, not podcastings'. I'm sitting here drinking a "Pacifico Clara" [ http://www.beerpal.com/Pacifico-Clara-Beer/880/ ] brewed by "La Cerveza del Pacifico" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/media/27adco.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206209505-A1YEOvmmoNEsE/U/d1oVkg ] and getting as quietly rocked as I would from any other beer that advertised on "big media" [ http://www.mediawatch.com/ ]. Like I said: "Screw 'em anyway. Who need 'em?" We're people on the fringe, skirting the edge of everything and anything because we represent something outside the 85% ("Hell", the 15%) of what the media want to appeal to. To paraphrase "Richard Millhouse Nixon," [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon ] (a man that I might have hated in his day, but when the proper "tour de phrase" was required, he hired the right speech writer,) we are part of a "silent minority". Well, I'm sick and tired of being part of that silent and ig-friggin'-nored minority. On this here intarweb with its infinite series of pipes, this trucker wants to shove the pedestrians off the road and get my "Winnebago" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnebago_Industries ] through. ---- "Swamped" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 "Conclusion:" We don't even friggin' "exist" to the media and we can expect that situation to continue "for-friggin'-ever". Now, I am "not" trying to make them pay attention and take notice. (Frankly, we couldn't make enough noise if we marched, or wheeled, into line at an airport, fired off cap pistols and and made, like, loud "boom" sounds. [ http://zealous1.com/dc/collaboc1de/11%20Headshot.mp3 and episode msb-0132 Nerdcore {but the original video is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4382766522092008539 and Doug is a "sad head case".}]) What I "am" saying is that we have the opportunity to exploit the same technology and the same internet to make our own media, our own shows. We have the opportunity to have our own piece of the internet, competing for our "attention", "our" attention, instead of the current oblivion we now face. I'd "love" for somebody to see what I see, that there's money to be made here, and that there advantages to be drawn from paying attention to "us" MSers. ---- "Photosensitivity" by: "Solstice Coil" http://www.solstice.co.il/ Outro Oh, for all of you people who hear me on the web without having iTunes, or maybe you've got rid an an old episode and would like to hear a song again, you can send me an email about it and I'll gladly, gladly play a song again. Heck I might even feature all of the music from an old episode all over again. (I keep everything so if you've heard it played once, you can hear it played again.) ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Our Truth" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "HeavensaLie" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Medusas Coil" by: "HIGHLORD" http://www.highlord.it/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Closer" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Swamped" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Photosensitivity" by: "Solstice Coil" http://www.solstice.co.il/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Fri, 21 March 2008 msb-fr-0004 Un Peu De Serieux, Quoi?intro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Je me sens à la frontière de la réalité et je n'ai rien a déclarer. ---- "TAKE ME SERIOUS" par: "BROOKE GLOVER" http://www.myspace.com/brookeglovermusic À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "She Wants To get Serious - 2007 remix" par: "Hudson Cerone" http://www.youtube.com/Kraftman63 À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Dead Serious" par: "Prepare for War" http://www.prepareforwar.net/ "Thèse:" Si il y avait de quoi de sérieux a la vie, la sclérose en plaque serais cette chose... Rien ne peut ruiner votre journée come la cécité, la surdité, la paralysie de quelque partie de votre corp, oû pire encore, les sensations phantôme qui rangent de l'agacant au lacinant. ---- "Worm Quartet - I Want To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" par: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/ "Synthèse:" C'est toujour très aggacant de ne plus faire confience en ce que notre corps nous dit. Presqu'aussi agacant que d'essaier d'expliquer ce qu'on ressent a quelqu'un qui ne comprend pas. C'est toujour très désagreable de se trouver incapable de ramasser quelque chose sauf si cette chose soit cachetée parcequ'elle serait renversée par nos mouvements spasmodiques. Des fois sont pire que d'autre et expliquer cá au monde demande toute notre patience, specialment quand on fait face a une expression d'incredulité ("Ben, 'tu sur que t'est malade, ou quoi?") ---- "Serious Comedy" par: "Three Man" http://www.3man.net/ "Conclusion:" La situation avec la sclérose en plaques est serieuse mais elle n'est pas désespérée. Des traitements existe et on peu encore espérer. ---- "A Serious Dub" par: "Quantum Soul" http://www.myspace.com/quantumsoul Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "TAKE ME SERIOUS" par: "BROOKE GLOVER" http://www.myspace.com/brookeglovermusic album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "She Wants To get Serious - 2007 remix" par: "Hudson Cerone" http://www.youtube.com/Kraftman63 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Dead Serious" par: "Prepare for War" http://www.prepareforwar.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Worm Quartet - I Want To Be Taken Seriously As An Artist" par: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Serious Comedy" par: "Three Man" http://www.3man.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "A Serious Dub" par: "Quantum Soul" http://www.myspace.com/quantumsoul album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Comments[0] |
Thu, 20 March 2008 msb-0277 The Carnival of MS Bloggers.. intro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Herrad may be coming back to the podcast. "Yea!" She's had quite a struggle with her MS lately (and an even worse one with her idiot of a neurologist.) ---- My stats are looking great. I'm showing month over month growth. I'm reaching more and more of us. The new stats package is great. AJAX performance is truly impressive. ---- I'm about to install MediaWiki on a server that I have access to this week-end. Why do you care? Because it not just for me. Wist me luck because if this works, we'll have a place that will be accessible to any and all MSers on the planet to get all kinds of MS Chapter News and events, calendars, with Google maps, and any YouTube videos of the events. Information about events will be set up using a simple and easy to use form so that anyone will be able to describe their event (with pictures if any, with a Google map to the event, with YouTube videos of the event, if any) for a given language, country, zip/postal code, as of a given date. and it will be accessible by location, by event, by event type, by chapter (basically, whatever we've provided.) It will be updateable by anyone who sends me their chapter info. (There will be a form on the wiki to fill out for update access. Nothing too onerous but it'll keep the "viagara" and "replica Rolex" pushing spammers "off" of the site.) I'm going to be using beta testers to see how detailed I need to make the update instructions. ---- I admire thoroughness, like the thoroughness of the linking together of the research scientists in the YouTube video attached to the front of this episode's blog entry, and the linking at "The Carnival of MS Bloggers" is certainly that. That is a list of MS Bloggers as thorough as any I've ever seen in all my years. Lisa either has way to much time on her hands or she must have some means of organizing them all and the links from one to the next. Like "Wow!" What do you think got me off of my butt to create the MSers wiki? :-) ---- "carnival" by: "henning ohlenbusch" http://rockumentary.net/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Carnival" by: "Jennifer Avalon" http://www.jenniferavalon.net/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "a funeral will follow the carnival" by: "the pet ghost project" http://www.myspace.com/thepetghostproject "Thesis:" I could sing peons to/for/about "The Carnival Of MS Bloggers". Lisa has managed to list a whole buch of Bloggers (182 of them as of 2008/03/15) but that is only a very small portion of the MSers one there (I've had hits from all over the planet and from a whole lot more than 182 bloggers [heck, its had hits from almost that many countries] because, as exhaustive as her list is, its limited to those who are rich enough to afford the technology, and bold enough to write and to speak.) ---- "Carnival" by: "Jerry Criner aka Cryout" http://unemploymentrecords.tripod.com/ "Synthesis:" Though Lisa's List is admirable (frankly, I'm a little awestruck,) it does not represent us in any way shape or form. The ratio of 182 blogggers to the estimated 5,000,000 MSer (themselves a 1 in 1,200 ratio of the estimated 6,000,000,000 people on this planet) works out to 27,473 people who have MS for every one of those who blog about their having MS. (About 23 times fewer than even have MS in the general population...) Okay, we know we computer literate are a scarce commodity, but there are about 50 million iPods out there world wide still in use. (We've probably all bought more than one since they first came out. [I own three of different vintages and different capacities and my wife owns one too.]) That means that there in a shi... uh, a whole bunch of MSers who can benefit from having a podcast (If we apply the 1 in 1,200 guesstimate of the MS society, that works out to over 40,000 MSers from the general iPod using population. [Since the majority of people {5.9 to 1} aren't even using an iPod to get these show episodes, the 40,000 is quite likely to be an underestimate and gives an overall population size of 236,000. {Which means that I still haven't reached but 1 out of 20 or the merest 5% of them.}]) This show is aimed at "them", the rest of us. ---- "Carnival Days" by: "Phil Ayoub" http://philayoub.com/ "Conclusion:" The 182 bloggers is a start, but there are over "five million" of us MSers on this planet. Most of those five million will never even talk to anyone about having MS, never blog, (many of them don't even know about blogs, [they don't have the chance {and it is "chance", and don't you forget it,}]) certainly never podcast, though perhaps, they might not fear a microphone as much as a keyboard, (at least until they discover how "different" they sound. "That" is truly shocking. :-) Let's get ourselves used to hearing about us and from us... "That" is the aim of this podcast. ---- "Carnival Funhouse" by: "Seve vs. Evan" http://myspace.com/sevevsevan Outro Oh, for all of you people who hear me on the web without having iTunes, or maybe you've got rid an an old episode and would like to hear a song again, you can send me an email about it and I'll gladly, gladly play a song again. Heck I might even feature all of the music from an old show all over again. (I keep everything so if you've it played once, you can hear it played again.) ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "carnival" by: "henning ohlenbusch" http://rockumentary.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Carnival" by: "Jennifer Avalon" http://www.jenniferavalon.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "a funeral will follow the carnival" by: the pet ghost project" http://www.myspace.com/thepetghostproject album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Carnival" by: "Jerry Criner aka Cryout" http://unemploymentrecords.tripod.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Carnival Days" by: "Phil Ayoub" http://philayoub.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Carnival Funhouse" by: "Seve vs. Evan" http://myspace.com/sevevsevan album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 19 March 2008 msb-0276 Another Inconvenient Truthintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I'm still going through the new stats package and I can safely report that the old shows are "stubborn" as hell (How? I mean what are people using to get to 'em? The episodes are gone from my web site altogether!?!) Talk about episodes having a "long tail" ... ---- "One Way Ticket Back To The Truth" by: "Yellow Express" http://www.yellowexpress.nu/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Truth" by: "A Band Called Quinn" http://www.myspace.com/abandcalledquinn Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Cobalt Truth" by: "Daniel Adam Johnson" http://www.rodaband.com/ "Thesis:" Of all the ways I have heard Shauna described, (plucky, gutsy, ornery, funny,) I have never thought of her as anything other than a hard working person who just drew a "short straw" in the universal lottery we call life. ---- "This Time I Want the Truth" by: "Jeff DeHerdt" http://www.jeffdeherdt.com/ "Synthesis:" An Inconvenient truth It is difficult to maintain optimism when reality can be so pessimistic for many. I've been referred to (though not directly)as Polyann-ish at times and I'm really not. I'm very lucky, as I have often said, with my MS, and life in general. That being said, I have my dark depressing moments, too, so I can understand that point of view. But focusing on the bad can only bring more bad. It is a self fulfilling prophecy. Think bad things will happen to you and you're more attentive to them when they do. There was a woman I went to university with who was one of the sweetest people I have ever met. She was kind, empathetic, funny, and always willing to help you with whatever was in her ability to do. She also had the worst luck of anyone I have ever met. If something could go wrong for Liz, it did. She was working really hard to put herself through school (engineering no less) and in her second year of a 3 year program she became sick and ended up missing a lot of class time. As a result, she had to do a make-up year, so to speak. She buckled down to do just that, though financially it was difficult. Her parents had little extra money, so she was her only source for dollars. At Christmas time in her third year, her father, a traveling salesman who was also deaf, was attacked in a hotel elevator, beaten with a pipe and left for dead. (I had met the man the year before when he was passing through town and came to dinner with Liz one night in the cafeteria of our residence. He was a small, quiet man, who nodded politely at everyone as we raised our voices so he could hear us. The police believe the animals who attacked him had probably approached him from behind,said something to him and not hearing them, he didn't respond.) He ended up in a coma for a short time before finally succumbing to his injuries. As far as I know, in the 20 some years since that happened no one was ever caught for that crime. Liz came back to school again. A couple of months go by and Liz develops some sort of rash that a doctor diagnoses as scabies. She spends a couple of hundred dollars (that she can ill afford) on washing everything she owns and applying whatever ointment the doc prescribes and recovers. A month later it's back. She sees her regular doc (who had been away when the rash initially started) and is told it's not scabies, but some other eczema type illness that will get better on its own. And it did. She was in my room one day when I received a call at the pay phone down the hall. I was out for a couple of minutes and left Liz in my room. When I returned, she said, "I fixed your candle for you. It was going to burn right over the edge". I had been given a candle that came with instructions on how to shape the edges so it would burn down in a specific pattern and I had been patiently shaping it for several hours. There was no way I could tell Liz that she shouldn't have done that. I just thanked her for her attention. Liz eventually graduated with her engineering diploma and though I lost track of her for 20 years or so, I did learn she went on to get her degree and obtain employment as an engineer. The entire time I knew Liz, even through the darkest days, she maintained a niceness about her, an empathy for any who were going through a rough patch, and an easy laugh and really cute giggle. We all saw her weep at the news of her father, but then buck up after that incident and carry on. We saw her frustration at the scabies incident, but again, we observed her carry on. She never once had the attitude of "poor me". She never once said, "Why me". Those of us who knew her all said those things for her, but never to her. Liz did not ignore the truth of the crap she went through. When told she had scabies, she said she had visited relatives one weekend who had a farm so it was within the realm of possibilities for her to have picked up the little buggers. When asked about her father's hospitalization and subsequent death, she told us she was angry and sad, but she said, I have to do what I can for my mother and little sister now, and that means finishing school. She fixed on the best possible outcome and strove for it. Liz never focussed on the bad things that happened to her. She always had hope for whatever was going to happen. And that is what I try to do as well (though I have a post bubbling at the surface as to how I seem to attract negative electronic events in my life) with my MS. People who hear me speak about MS at fund raisers or just one on one, know that I tell the inconvenient truth (sorry, Al) that while I look great today and appear to have all my physical and mental faculties, the disability of MS lurks in the background every day of my life. A specific drug may be helping me to achieve what I accomplish, but so do the little (and big) naps and rests I frequently take. So does eating a relatively balanced diet and all the little treats I allow myself (good for the mental health). So does not beating myself up for perceived failures like a divorce or bad relationships, or for forgetting my shopping bags when I go to the grocery store. There are many things I do to maintain my current status. Is putting hope in the mix part of it? Yes, indeed, because I hope for a future without MS. It doesn't appear that it will be in my life time, but I strive for the future anyway. Most of this post has been fueled by a recent posting of Lisa's on Brass and Ivory about PR campaigns for MS drugs. I have nothing against PR campaigns in general, or PR companies. I'm in the PR business myself. What I want is "transparency". When I speak to groups about my experiences I tell them who I am, who my employer is, and the good and bad of my experiences. It's the truth. And isn't that what we need? ---- "Pure Truth" by: "Still Nameless" http://www.stillweb.it/ "Conclusion:" I too am trying to be as transparent about my MS, my motivation and my goals for this podcast. Yes I'm trying to make a dollar bill from advertisers in the very limited sphere of MS products. (Why not? I've "got" it. Why not make it work for "us" instead of being ignored, whimpering in a corner.) Yes, I happen to think that, as media shrinks from the huge expenses involved in the mass market arena (the world of the "Media Concentration" [ http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/ ] where the "ClearChannel"s and the "Infinity Broadcasting"s rule the airwaves [that control being handed to them on a plate by the FCC,] ) and finds its way onto the internet and the web, where the FCC has no sway, and cheap is the law of the land, I have a customer relationship model which they might look at. Yes, the media companies could use some humanization, some other way to see us, "as people!" (What a "novel idea".) And this podcast has been doing that for over two years... ---- "Our Truth" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "One Way Ticket Back To The Truth" by: "Yellow Express" http://www.yellowexpress.nu/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Truth" by: "A Band Called Quinn" http://www.myspace.com/abandcalledquinn album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Cobalt Truth" by: "Daniel Adam Johnson" http://www.rodaband.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "This Time I Want the Truth" by: "Jeff DeHerdt" http://www.jeffdeherdt.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Pure Truth" by: "Still Nameless" http://www.stillweb.it/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Our Truth" by: "Lacuna Coil" http://www.centurymedia.com/us/single_artist.php?ID=31 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[4] |
Mon, 17 March 2008 msb-0275 Funny Ol' Thingintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... "This" list at "The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army" [ http://skippyslist.com/list/ ] had me breaking up. I'm not much of one for military humor but I had an hilarious moment after discovering this web site via the "Otaku Generation" podcast. [http://www.otakugeneration.net ] And, despite the fact that it desperately needs rerecording and remixing (can somebody please step up to the plate and offer to rerecord it with them, please? This song could be a Monster hit!) , the next song has such a haunting quality that, when I found myself hearing it in my "mind's ear" on and off for days, I realized that "Monster" by "Broken Feather" deserves another play. ---- "Monster" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Old Broken Will" by: "Tim Ratcliff and Ken Bailey" http://www.westfieldrecording.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Broken Wings - For Chet" by: "Melissa Forbes" http://www.melissaforbes.com/ "Thesis:" I've been doing this podcast for over two years now. I think I've gotten to know my audience a bit and what we need a little bit more. I've also reached a conclusion about what I'm going to have to do to get us what we need. Basically, if anything is going to happen, I'm going to have to start the ball rolling myself. ---- "Broken Windbreak" by: "Kwyjibo" http://www.acmerecords.com/kwyjibo.php "Synthesis:" Part of what you have taught me over the past two years, (as I slowly got my head out of my butt and took a look around, :-) is that we need not only need some form of media presence but that we need some form of information vehicle to get the news out and back. What we need is a united presence in addition to all of the individual expressions of angst, passion, triumph, anger, resignation, fire-in-the-belly and leave-me-the-hell-alone ... all of these blogs out here as a cry that we exist, were people and we matter. Some form of presence where the internet is the transmission medium and text, audio or video are the content media. The internet is perfect for exquisitely focused advertising and, because of my demand-based "pull" ad model, its even better. Amongst my many sources for information (no I'm not going to bore you with a list of providers and their websites,) I like to quote from "The New York Times" because its a really mass market publication (and if "they" cover it, you "know" is really got to have mass appeal and it also has to have the patina of verifiability.) They just ran an "article" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/business/media/14adco.html?ref=technology ] which should scare the bee-jeesus off of traditional media. Pepsi Cola has just launched a new brand (with its own web site at "http://tava.com/") purely on the internet and with on-site product promotion. Its no guarantee that the stuff is any good or that its going to take off sales wise, but its an opportunity to find out "without" having to bet the farm on it because its an affordable proposition for Pepsi. They can launch a product and the campaign without having to get into major debt at any point along the line. They can pay for such a campaign from some flack's entertainment budget for a week. If the thing takes off like an "Outpost.com" [ http://www.outpost.com/ ] gerbil .. its just a question of getting more bandwidth and a bigger production run. Sounds like a win-win to me... So I'm sending some emails and making some phone calls to speak to some, uh, "prepared minds". What? Am I supposed to sit in my figgin' corner with a friggin' tin cup and hope that some friggin' charitable soul deigns cast a friggin' glance, and tosses a few friggin' ducats my way? Screw that, Bub! Not only does the squeaky wheel get the grease, but this wheel wants to make things "hap...pen". ---- "Broken Wings" by: "Dave Lambert Band" http://davelambertband.com/ "Conclusion:" I the course of doing this podcast for over two years I've gotten to know my audience and what we all need. I've also come to a conclusion about what I'm going to have to do to get what we need and that I'm going to have to start the ball rolling. But I can't do it alone. "You MSers" and "your MS organizations" are going to have to: 1. tell me what "you" are doing, next week, next month, in the near future, so that I can run features on whatever you're planning to help you get the word out, and, 2. tell me whatever "you" have just done, so I can feature it in some chapter type news As much as I'd like to, I can't keep on doing it for free. This podcast has become my entire job and a sump pump for all my time and whatever money I can scrape up to keep it going and growing. So I am starting this podcast in two versions, one free, and one with all the news features for some money. (I haven't settled on a final figure but its probably going to run about $1/week or $50/year.) For this you will get full access to whatever chapter news I can get from whatever sources I can find, where ever the chapters happen to be, whatever diagnostic and pharmacological reports I can find to bring you. The idea is to have a clearing house, divided first by language, then by country, then by region-slash-state-slash-province-slash-prefecture (its your country, you divide it up however you want,) accessed by whatever postal-code-slash-zip code you use. This will permit me to handle local events while also enabling me to handle regional or national of inter-national events. You'll be able to put up news (in text only, or via PDF, audio or video,) about your MS event by language, by country, by region and/or zip/postal code from a date to a date, for "free" (which should interest the chapters and event planners) and be able to search for the same (which should interest members everywhere.) This will be worldwide and accessible via the internet for updating the info in the database and/or via podcasts. I've already started coding and I am soon going to be recruiting from my audience for some, uh, beta testers. I'm going to use a "Wiki" [ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki ] with specially templated pages to collect and disseminate the information. ---- "Help Me" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Monster" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Old Broken Will" by: "Tim Ratcliff and Ken Bailey" http://www.westfieldrecording.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Broken Wings - For Chet" by: "Melissa Forbes" http://www.melissaforbes.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Broken Windbreak" by: "Kwyjibo" http://www.acmerecords.com/kwyjibo.php album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Broken Wings" by: "Dave Lambert Band" http://davelambertband.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Help Me" by: "Broken Feather" http://www.myspace.com/brokenfeather1 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 16 March 2008 msb-fr-0003 Je Vais Au Restaurantintro .. Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Je vais á un restaurant Français a New York, (ce qui ne devrais vous laisser ni chaud ni froid,) mais c'est encore merveilleux que la cuisine Française soit si bien distribuée a travers le monde. ---- "Critical" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Livin 4 the Nite" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Wrong Again" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ "Thèse:" La cuisine Française est le meillieur cadeaux que la France a fait au monde. Le système métrique, les lois du "Code Napoleon," la diplomacie et tout le reste doive prendre place derrière la plus humble de ces fermieres de campagne, suivi par le fromager, le cultivateur de champagne et de Pastis et le boulanger qui font tous des miracles pour s'assurer que l'on mange bien. ---- "Iron Woman" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ "Synthèse:" Au risque de parraitre comme un grand gourmand (quand je ne suit qu'un petit affamé :-) la gastronomie est une passion que je professe depuis des années. Les portions non pas besoins d'ètre enorme mais ca doit ètre de la plus haute qualitée. Ce soir nous sommes partis à Manhattan pour bouffer. ---- "Rock on Rock" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ "Conclusion:" En écoutant ce programme je regrette que je n'ai pas une traduction pour la phrase "Kick-ass rock 'n roll!" ---- "The Consequences" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Critical" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Livin 4 the Nite" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Wrong Again" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Iron Woman" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Rock on Rock" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Consequences" par: "The Creamsicles" http://www.thecreamsicles.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Comments[0] |
Fri, 14 March 2008 msb-0274 Back To The Topic At Ear, uh, Handintro /* Sorry the show is late. I had recorded the podcast on schedule but LibSin is having some problems and I couldn't post the show notes or the link to the m4a file I had uploaded... */ Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... You may have noticed the clickable icon on my [ http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ ] site for the "Carnival of MS Bloggers." They have a new post up. You really should go over there and check "it" [ http://brassandivory.blogspot.com/2008/03/carnival-of-ms-bloggers-6-country-of.html ] out. Its got a rather poignant story of life in a strange country: "MS". I'm also trying to get a clickable icon or badge on Linda's site for the MSBPodcast. The more we're cross linked, the better, but then the problem is one of keeping current. (She mentioned the fact that I actually repodcast at msb.podshow.com and now I'm gonna have a whole 'nother set of stats to integrate. (Awwww. Too friggin' bad. Success 's gonna suck, eh? [Its a good thing my commercial model can take multiple download points since the ads are done using a separate feed and server.]) ---- A year or so ago, I was delighted to discover MDMHvonPA's "site" [ http://mdmhvonpa.blogspot.com/ ] which featured the "Haupertonian MS Cabal". You can tell that MDMH is a techie because he tracks people by their last post date as well. I hesitate to bother MDMH and ask him to put the same kind of badge for MSBPodcast on his site, but I think will. :-) I think I'd like to see a single place where we MSers can reach out to each other as often and as openly as we want, or "not". We're already making divisions along linguistic lines instead of national ones. (Take a look at my map if you want to see how far afield we MSers are spread.) Oh ... If only there was a human being involved in sending all that spam, they'd hear this: "To all of the makers of fake watches, fake meds, fake penis extensions and all of those fake Nigerian widows, you're all ending up in my trash before I even get to look at you." I go to my mail servers once every couple of weeks and check on how accurate my spam filters are and they are quite astonishing. 100% rejection and narry a valid message amongst them. I can purge the whole lot without losing any legitimate traffic. When IPv6 becomes standard, we should see the end of this plague of lies. (The new internet protocol will require authentication at every hop identifying the specific computer and will abort forwarding if the address is spoofed at any point along the chain, [which will ruin all of the botnets as well. Each computer, and the path to it, will be clearly identified.]) Messages originating from a computer will carry the identity of that computer and there is no way that the operator of the computer will be able to evade it. (And if it doesn't, the message stops right at the challenge point. Most spam would not be able to make a second hop past its own SMTP server.) ---- Onto a more relevant rant, I am dealing with an updated stats package from LibSyn. Its giving me different numbers than the earlier package. (I am showing about 56,300+ downloads with the new package but only 52,250+ downloads with the old package. That may be due to reporting partial downloads.) I'm now trying to reconcile these numbers, but the new package is an Ajax based one and much, much faster. Its also a much more capable one and its giving me stats reporting capabilities that will save me a lot of work. ---- "Festival" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Dark Sky" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Somber" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine "Thesis:" This podcast episode is about the musicians that I am fortunate enough to discover on my various peregrinations through the collections at the PMN (the Podsafe Music Network.) I am often lucky enough to come across some artist or other who is really really worth listening to, so I create a 'cast featuring them; like this one... ---- "Razor Concerto" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine "Synthesis:" Part of my fascination with musicians is because of my personal history, (I gave up on music back in the seventies because of the contracts that they wanted me to sign, [{I wasn't born yesterday so ...} I read them first and they were all, just thinly disguised legalized theft.]) Being a musician is long, thankless hours of hard work, and requires dedication as well as talent. We don't need these no-talent scavengers trying to eat at our entrails while we're trying to perfect our selves and our skills. I really think that these people deserve your support (as well as mine, 'cause my CD collection keeps growing and growing. :-) ---- "Malignus" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine "Conclusion:" It is with delight that I create these "solo" shows which feature more than only one track by an artist. I hope that by showing you that they are capable of the effort, you are capable of supporting them by clicking on the link (or going to the web page at my blog or in the show notes and getting the address off of there,) and buying their music. (Why should I be the only one with a growing music collection. :-) ---- "Mello-D" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Festival" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Dark Sky" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Somber" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Razor Concerto" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Malignus" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Mello-D" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Direct download: msb-0274_Back_To_The_Topic_At_Ear_uh_Hand.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:41 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 12 March 2008 msb-0273 Milestones To Go Before I Sleepintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... Montel Williams is not endearing himself to me right now by giving me almost no notice but, here goes: On Thursday, March 13, Montel Williams will bring celebrities and poker fans together in a gala bash to benefit Multiple Sclerosis research. Williams, a show host with CBS for over 17 years, has combined the glitz of a celebrity benefit with the excitement and fun of poker. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go towards finding a cure for MS. Check out the press release here [ http://www.yaktivate.com/pressyak/ ] I've been finding good artists on the PMN so you're in for a treat. (The guys I've managed to find for the next few episodes are great, so think about clicking on the links and buying their music.) ---- "LIke A Knife" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Maybe" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Your Call" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade "Thesis:" Shauna is back and she must have liked "Stopping by Wood On a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost [ http://www.amazon.com/Stopping-Woods-Snowy-Evening-Robert/dp/0525467343 ] at some point. ---- "Fall For You" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade "Synthesis:" Items made from tin and aluminum are the traditional gifts for couples celebrating their tenth anniversary. In my parents' day, they would have received cake pans or cookie sheets, perhaps cutlery. The "modern" day gifts for the 10th anniversary are diamonds. Considering that aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer's Disease and altering the blood/brain barrier, and I'm aware of "blood" diamonds, I guess I'll have to get myself a tin whistle or something like that as a gift. This week marks 10 years since MS entered my life. MS has been in my life longer than any personal relationship I've ever had. People come and go, but MS will be with me forever. I hope to celebrate many more milestones with MS before I sleep. Being of a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" nature, I celebrate my anniversary. Today I took yummy chocolate cake to the MS Clinic in Halifax to share with the gang there. It's not so much a celebration of the anniversary or that I have MS, but more a celebration of how far I've grown as a person since 1998. It's a celebration of the things I've accomplished and learned and of the people I've had the fortune to meet. I've been told that where you are at 10 years is a pretty good indicator of how your MS will progress. So, mine's going along at a snail's pace and that's good. I like snails. ---- "Suppose" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade "Conclusion:" There's a lot to be said for being a snail, except for the ones on a menu of an expensive French restaurant. Then I'd pass... But enough idle chitchat. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." ---- "Goodbye" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade Shauna has written some more great episodes and we'll share those with you every Wednesday. :-) Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list ---- "LIke A Knife" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- "Maybe" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- "Your Call" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- "Fall For You" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- "Suppose" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- "Goodbye" by: "Secondhand Serenade" http://www.myspace.com/secondhandserenade album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Direct download: msb-0273_Milestones_To_Go_Before_I_Sleep.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:18 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 10 March 2008 msb-0272 Another Endingintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... .  .I've been reading "The End of America" [ http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204028888&sr=8-1 ] by Naomi Wolf ISBN: 978-1933392790 and although I reach the same conclusion, I am more optimistic that she is about the ultimate fate of United States of America. She assumes that the coming dark age of the adherents of the Bush/Cheney doctrine of "Endless War" against an ill defined ideology, that of terrorism, (unlike a person, an ideology can never be defeated, it can only be "obsolesced") will turn out like Winston Smith's battle with the minions of "Big Brother". While it will feel like this. if it ever comes to pass, she is ignoring the internets' effect on society. The very concept of inter networking everything on the planet, and the fact that it is happening even as I write this, (and it will have progressed even further and faster as I write/say this,) is more seductively transformative than trying to rule through control and the imposition of limitations. (To be a real SOB, I'd point out that, barring a permanent enforced return to a pre-industrial age lifestyle, [one where things no longer work and where people no longer dream, {where nobody uses any technology and everybody's pig ignorant, }] the world "will" keep on turning.) Political power is usually defined as the ability to say "no". All our law books are filled with things you "can't" do. But economic power is usually defined as the ability to say "yes". All of our economic rules are designed to make it easier to do things. People of power in one arena need people in the other, otherwise everything breaks down. The dance "will" go on because nobody actually "wants" to live in a dung heap of their own making. Ms. Wolf is right, but she didn't see enough or far enough. Change is an organic thing and we're organisms. We all die. Its just that for most people, the actual date is uncertain until it happens. Nothing can change that. The pace of change might slow down, and then again, it might speed up, out pacing our ability to keep up... ---- "I Crush Everything" by: "Jonathan Coulton" http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" Here's a tip from a reader/audience member who just wants me to tell you that he found a site about "Living with Multiple Sclerosis" and sent me a link to pass onto you. [ http://www2.healthtalk.com/go/multiple-sclerosis?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=Link&utm_term=MS ] I went and checked it out and its a nice media rich site. Very informative. They also have a podcast (I was already subscribed. :-) This is clickable; the iTunes link. [ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=256738013 ]. "Et je remarque qu'il y a plus de visiteurs de pays Francophones. C'est un debut, quoi? Voulez vous vous aider et prendre la direction de ce petit vehicule?" ---- "Break Everything" by: "Patty Hurst Shifter" http://www.myspace.com/pattyhurstshifter Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Everyday Fades Away" by: "The Bulldogs" http://www.bulldogsinet.com/ "Thesis:" Ms Wolf is absolutely right in her list of the ten steps that a despot takes to secure his position in history. She is also correct in the amount of damage that could be done to the populace of the United States, who, lets face it, by their ignorant and jingoistic attitudes only seem to invite this kind of abuse from the official they elect. She is also correct in laying the blame squarely at the feet of the current administration, since the actions undertaken by that current administration, (one might say crimes committed against the American populace,) on its own and at the behest of certain advisors, (I'm looking straight at "you" in particular Mr. Rove,) are unprecedented and without parallel in all of recorded history. (Face it Mr. Bush, no one else has been able to do the kind of fear mongering and intimidation of our elected officials that you have. Not even during the Civil War. [I'm reminded of a video of Saddam Hussein, rousing his follower to a kind of pitiful frenzy where they were condemning each other to death to appear loyal to him.] [Not the general populace mind you. They've barely looked up from the through while you and your "friends" have stolen their future by indebting them for generations to come under your economic regime.]) ---- "Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba" http://worlds-fair.net/morcheeba/ "Synthesis:" The "Ten Steps To Dominance" are: 1. Invoke an External and an Internal Threat. (I have seen Osama's handiwork first hand and, all in all, as a piece of Arab Street Theater, I was not impressed. [And I fully expect Osama, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, to resurface in November of this election year;] as a terror threat, the internal combustion engines automobile was far more devastating [and unchecked until Ralph Nader's "exposé" of the car industry in "Unsafe at Any Speed" { http://www.amazon.com/Unsafe-Any-Speed-Ralph-Nader/dp/1561290505 } and the Corvair { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair } in particular, which shone a light the heartless cockroach accountants of that particular world.]) 2. Establish Secret Prisons. (Guantanamo is "not" one, but there are several in the world where people were caught were send, including a "Canadian citizen" who was just flying home one day and got caught up in the net.) 3. Develop a Paramilitary Force. (Can anyone say Blackwater. They're coming to a town near you. Count on it. They're already deploying around the country. [But they're for profit and the day the money runs out, the powers that deployed them are going to run into the same problems that have afflicted every tin pot dictator since the Romans up to the current situation with child soldiers in various African nations.]) 4. Surveil Ordinary Citizens. (I've got a camera on a pole at the end of my street. How about you? [Its not necessarily a bad thing. It would be a requirement of a "compassionate state" as well.] But the "technology" [ http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/mri_vision# ] to surveil us is rapidly approaching the point of also being able to affect us as well. There are thickets of ethical considerations standing between us and our rights to our own selves! And it doesn't matter if we're being watched by humans [expensive and time consuming, just ask the former members of the Stasi { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi }] or by cheap, tireless machines.) 5. Infiltrate Citizens Groups. (? So now my Jersey City MS Support Group might be harboring somebody who's going to report on me? I seriously doubt it, but for other groups, that could be a serious pain-in-the-butt®™.) 6. Arbitrarily Detain and Release Citizens. (See my example in #2. Hell, he wasn't even a citizen! He was just waiting in an airport line and got Hoovered into a camp.) 7. Target Key Individuals. (Well, if there's any opposition leader, he's a target. [Is Ron Paul, the deliberately much ignored candidate who's a strong constitutionalist, a target? Then why is he being so ignored? He "is" a presidential candidate. Is he being ignored because the current administration can't try to refute him without exposing themselves?]) 8. Restrict the Press. (We're now stuck with Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. There's hardly any need to restrict "those" jingoistic airheads, but everybody else, from "Mother Jones'" to "The Wall Street Journal" had better watch their speech. It "ain't" free.) 9. Cast Criticism as "Espionage" and Dissent as "Treason". (Can anyone say "No Fly List"? Its here already and its already got potential to become a much worse pain, emphasis on pain.) 10. Subvert the Rule Of Law. (Did you notice "where" the district attorneys who were fired were from? Were they practicing law in electorally "disputed states" maybe?) But by setting them up, you also set up their own inevitable demise. Remember the "Ten Caesars"... They were a pretty brutal bunch and they succeeded each other at an accelerating pace, didn't they? The pattern of human venality was established long before any of these ten rules were crafted. The last of the "Ten Caesars" died over sixteen hundred years ago. "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" indeed. These rules all require the cooperation of an uncritical mass press. And it has already happened to a large extent. But the critical press has moved away from mass media and onto the internet, which is also indispensable for business, (and is only becoming more so, [for the freedom to produce and to consume everything, "including information," is essential to life in the modern world.]) ---- "Everything" by: "Nijole Sparkis" http://www.nijolesparkis.com/ "Conclusion:" I am quietly proud of the American people and not at all cynical. The damage done by the Bush doctrine "will" be undone. Bush is, after all, another mere mortal. Nothing created by anyone has ever lasted longer than a century. The "Third Reich" was supposed to last for a thousand years. It barely lasted about twenty years. "L'Empire de Napoléon" lasted only slightly longer. What ever Carl Rove wants with a eternal "Republican Majority" is likely to be much less long lasting as the Third Reich. (The Republicans are not as well armed as the Third Reich was, in defiance of the "Treaty of Versaille". [ http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versa/chart1.gif ]) Nothing done since the middle ages has had any lasting power. You start something and you're almost guaranteed to see it to completion; unlike the medieval cathedrals where you started and maybe your grand children would walk in a completed structure. The reason for this is that, as things get more unwieldy, they, uh, become more unwieldy. You have to set up systems that can heal themselves or they eventually and very simply get crushed to death by their own very weight (and they take you and your "New World Order" with them! ["Pol Pot" sat in his jungle lair while his child warrior grew up and went away. "Kim Jong Il" is moving towards "détente" and "raprochement" because he realizes that the pile he's sitting on top of is rapidly becoming used up and the very concept of a "North" Korea is becoming irrelevant so he has got to make it viable.]) Sorry Mr Rove, but your dream of winning of an "Eternal Republican Majority" ... would in fact be losing. Its unfortunate that you didn't study "Machiavelli" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli ]. You would have realized that Bush was never going to be a proper conqueror of Iraq. He would have had to "move there." He's just too parochial; a real mama's (or dadda's) boy. The triumph of the founders of the United States is that they created a system of dynamic oppositional forces: the three legged stool of "the executive, the legislative and the judicial" [ http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/government/branches.html ] branches; where each branch needs and uses the services of the other. Now a three legged stool can stand much better than anything else. (Not one or more legs too few and not one or more legs too many. It doesn't tip over or become wobbly.) ---- "Everything That Hath Breath" by: "Dave Paris" http://www.daveparis.com/ Well this audio was one experiment that needs more work. But I can see how I could make it work by changing my writing style though I don't know what I could expect from a machine which can't handle any non-mechanical pronunciation. It didn't even know how to pronounce Versaille. Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "I Crush Everything" by: "Jonathan Coulton" http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Break Everything" by: "Patty Hurst Shifter" http://www.myspace.com/pattyhurstshifter album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Everyday Fades Away" by: "The Bulldogs" http://www.bulldogsinet.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Everybody Loves A Loser" by: "Morcheeba" http://worlds-fair.net/morcheeba/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Everything" by: "Nijole Sparkis" http://www.nijolesparkis.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Everything That Hath Breath" by: "Dave Paris" http://www.daveparis.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Sat, 8 March 2008 msb-fr-0002 Je me porte très bien, merci.*rheu*intro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme... Ca commence bien. Ok, je vais m'introduire. Mon nom est Charles-André Rovira et j'ai la sclérose en plaque. (Remarquez bien, je n'ai pas dit "je souffre de", mais "j'ai la"... J'ai un genre récurrente/rémittente.) Je l'ai depuis 1970. J' n'avais 16 ans quand ma coordonation manuelle a pris la clé des champs pour ne jamais revenir. J'ai signé au revoir a l'écriture que les soeurs avais travaillées si fort pour m'inculquer. Mais je n'étais pas diagnosé. J'ai eu une deuxième crise en 1985. C'est tres intéressant de découvrir tous ce qui peut pas functionner quand on a une crise sévère. Et "tout" était une assez bonne description. Après cinq semaines, j'ai quité l'hopital et je me suit mis a la tâche de me reconstruire. J'ai fais une recuperation presque totale. La derniere episode était en 1997 et elle m'a laissé avec des sequeles. Je ne peut plus danser mais je peut encore parler et je peut encore penser. Et j' pense que c'est le temp pour une chanson. ---- "14th floor" par: "REGGAE FAR EAST" http://feeds.feedburner.jp/ReggaeFarEast À Vous suit... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Dogs Bollocks" par: "DOGS BOLLOCKS" http://www.myspace.com/dogsbollocksbasel À L'aide est en troisième... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Mental Braces" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/ "Thèse:" Les symptomes phantomes et la spasticité son la cause des malheurs de la sclérose en plaque. Voyons quel bordel les plaques de sclérose occasionnent. ---- "Yellow Buddha'" par: "The Puffins" http://www.thepuffins.com/ "Synthèse:" Les scléroses cause du bruit et ce bruit se manifeste en sensations phantômes et en mouvements spastiques. Les sensations phantômes sont facheuses parsqu'on ne peut pas gratter une démangeaison quand on ne sais pas oû qu'elle se trouve. Des fois ce n'est pas jusqu'une démangaison. Des fois, ca peut ètre pénible. Les mouvement spastiques sont facheux parsqu'on se sent vise par des demons qu'on aurait pu jurer qu'on avais laissé derniere nous en enfance. Des fois, ce n'est pas juste du lait reversé sur la table. Des fois, ca peut ètre très dangeureux. Pensez a tout ce qui est cablé ensemble par des nerfs, et dans les deux directions. La sclérose en plaque, c'est serieux. ---- "Married to a Frenchman" par: "Polysics" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/pol.html "Conclusion:" On peut oblier les causes des scléroses parcequ'elle ne sont pas vraimant importantes. (Nous allons voir dans des éditions suivantes que cette attitude est l'anathème pour progresser et doit être combattu avec des efforts ardus et de grand soin.) Il y a maintenant des traitements suffisant pour arrêter la formation de sclérose. (Mais ils vous laissent avec un système immune d'un patient du SIDA.) ---- "liberate french version" par: "La Tennemoto De Alcorncon" http://theorchard.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "14th floor" par: "REGGAE FAR EAST" http://feeds.feedburner.jp/ReggaeFarEast album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Dogs Bollocks " par: "DOGS BOLLOCKS" http://www.myspace.com/dogsbollocksbasel album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Mental Braces" par: "37Hz" http://37hz.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Yellow Buddha" par: "The Puffins" http://www.thepuffins.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Married to a Frenchman" par: "Polysics" http://www.asianmanrecords.com/bands/pol.html album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "liberate french version" par: "La Tennemoto De Alcorncon" http://theorchard.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Direct download: msb-fr-0002_Je_me_porte_trs_bien_merci._rheu_.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:05 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 7 March 2008 msb-0271 Person-i-pulationintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... .. YouTube never ceases to amaze me. I stumbled upon this item while, uh, digging through Digg. [ http://www.digg.com/ ] Author Naomi Wolf raises some horrifying points as she surveys the events that have happened since 9/11 and places them in the context of what has happened to western civilizations, or at least "soit disant" civilized states, since the rise of mass communications in her book "The End of America". [ http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204028888&sr=8-1 ]. ISBN: 978-1933392790 I wont bore you with my own observations or prognostications about the coming 20 or so years, but it will definitely be, uh, a couple of "interesting" decades as the forces of stability and commerce struggle with the forces of instability and commerce. Beyond 20 years, it stops being predictive of our own march towards progress, and of the struggles of marchers in the other direction. and becomes absolute fiction. The problems of perpetuating powerful families is that they feel a sense of entitlement. I think all of the potential problems could have been avoided if there was a further term limit placed on individuals who rise to power: that their reward for wielding great power would be that none of their children and grandchildren could get into public office. That would take care of any dynastic longings and prevent the silly situation that Americans find themselves in. Bush senior, by getting elected, would have quenched Bush Junior's political ambition. As it is now, we've "all" got to worry about disappearing in Gitmo. ---- Science Daily [ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303093559.htm ] is reporting on FOX-03a which is a protein that prevents AIDS. It shields the body from HIV. While that might be regarded as excellent news by many I'm wondering what that news will do to our own research into MS. We have benefited, indirectly but none the less, greatly from the world's obsession with HIV/AIDS. All kinds of immuno-suppressant drugs have been discovered from the research into HIV/AIDS. Rebif is one and my drug of, well, it not exactly my choice, but its the one I use to keep my immune system in check. (But why, oh why, do they insist on making it available only via hypodermic injection? [I "hate" needles. {Its a violation of my integument.}]) I wonder, if FOX-03a "does" prevent HIV/AIDS, what will that mean to further research into the immune system. Do we MSers and the companies affected by the loss of media focus that the discovery of what is effectively a cure for HIV/AIDS have the wherewithal to carry on the research? I guess we'd better be prepared to dig deeper into our pockets when the fund-raisers come around, folks... ---- "Romanichal-Flamenco" by: "Stevan Romano" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=becd05d0a5552cc73f434342782585a4 Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Minor's Heaven" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Meditation" by: "Tracey Helen" http://www.heart-and-music.com/ "Thesis:" Sorry about this MSers but this is another show dedicated to educating potential advertisers. This show had several other titles while I was writing it, ("The Power Of Pull", "Der echte 'Triumph des Willens' ", "Supply-Sider Suckage", "Googlenomics", and so on,) but I never did settle on a title sufficiently fitting the scale of the coming economic dislocation and of the slow but inexorable revolution in the awareness of both macro and micro-economists that the internet is foisting on the world stage. Ergo, the politically correct version of "manipulation." ---- "Raggle Taggle Gypsies" by: "Celtic Stone" http://celticstone.4celts.com/ "Synthesis:" Take the following "example" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/media/27adco.html?ref=technology ] of a complete reversal of the economic model for a beer ad, (I know, I know, I'm laughing about the choice of example being my old nemesis, a beer company, but its somehow both fitting and comforting. [Actually, I'm laughing at the outlandish and "risqué" cereal "commercial" { http://imadeyoubreakfastinbed.com/ } referred to later on in the article.]) "Pacifico has been growing in popularity without video pitches. Sales volume has increased at a compound annual rate of 14.8 percent, according to Crown Imports, a venture of Grupo Modelo and Constellation Brands that sells Pacifico in the United States along with brands like Corona Extra, Corona Light, Negra Modelo and St. Pauli Girl. Still, volume for Pacifico, estimated at more than five million cases a year, is less than half that of an import like Guinness and less than 1 percent of a domestic brand like Bud Light. Sales for Pacifico are concentrated in states like Arizona and California, reflecting the brand’s origin in Baja California, Mexico. Until now, the ads for Pacifico have followed a regional strategy. “Our first national push is via our Web site, which is intended to be the home base for Pacifico,� said Paul Verdu, the vice president for marketing at Crown in Chicago who oversees what he calls its “next-wave brands� — that is, all the imports without “Corona� in their names. The goal is for Pacifico to “grow out of its very, very strong West Coast roots,� Mr. Verdu said, “into the eastern half of the United States.� “And when we say ‘the eastern half of the United States,’ � he added, laughing, “it’s everywhere east of Denver, honestly.� “To me as the brand guy, trying to drive this, these videos are really the magic,� he said, “a great new way to deliver our message.� " Does the fact that Pacifico is only selling five million cases a year matter as much as much as the fact that they are growing by almost 15% per year? The fact that Pacifico is only selling five million cases a year is to its detriment, as far as the mass media corporate conglomerations. They're just too small to be worth bothering with. (In French, we'd say "C'est d'la p'tite bière, ca..." [Its more delicious irony {even if its perhaps not delicious beer. (I've never had any.)}]) The fact that Pacifico's sales are growing by 15% per year matters "a great deal" to its owners. (It doesn't matter if the company is a sole ownership, a partnership or a stock corporation. [Stock just means dilution of ownership. {And it really does not mater if the company is public or private.}]) What really matters is that Pacifico is a growing concern and therefore a going concern and worth investing in. "That" is the power of Relationships and Connections. Without the traditional commercial gatekeepers to keep them off at a safe distance, small businesses are able to thrive by using the internet and the web in getting their message out there. And the coming (and some say cyclical and inevitable) economic crash will be most injurious to the big commercial gate keepers as the client base shifts from the overpriced broadcast media over to the comparatively inexpensive internet (and, just like "Pacifico", they'll also able to take advantage of the further benefits that being linked on-line bring.) ---- "Ca y est" by: "Edie" http://ediemusic.com/ "Conclusion:" The sheer scale and scope of the economic transformation being forced onto the world by the very victims of the internet just highlights the failure of the imagination of the common man. Through this very failure, we are moving forward at an accelerating pace to reach a better world. (They should have, would have recoiled in fear at the very thought of the economic cataclysm that they were unleashing. [And thank what ever gods you might believe in that they didn't because we're all heading there now.]) (In all things dealing with economic, I "am" a capitalist, but health care is "not" an economic venture, neither are Armed Services. [The only ones who think so are people with extremely small souls who would rather fight over festering piles of rubble than to take the helm of great ships of state. {I would "outlaw" ventures like Blackwater ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_USA ) instead of hiring them to be our mercenaries (well, President Bush's mercenaries, [ but on "our" dime... {That man's "de facto" contempt for the "de jure" intent of the American constitution is and/or borders on the treasonable. The oath of office doesn't seem to have made any impression on him.}])}]) It is unfortunate that the linking together of, well, everybody, is being groped at blindly by people who are merely sensing the tilting of the gravity field of the commerce of this world. But when it comes to realizing the value of a "comparative advantage" Adam Smith's "blind hand of the marketplace" is as unerring, and as relentless, as water flowing downhill. ---- "The Wind and the Rain" by: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Romanichal-Flamenco" by: "Stevan Romano" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=becd05d0a5552cc73f434342782585a4 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Minor's Heaven" by: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Meditation" by: "Tracey Helen" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=8a597534dcf1c5cbc120511b038f2e07 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Raggle Taggle Gypsies" by: "Celtic Stone" http://celticstone.4celts.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Ca y est" by: "Edie" http://ediemusic.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Wind and the Rain" by: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Wed, 5 March 2008 msb-0270 Don't Suckintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... No that title is not a typo or something. Those are all the songs I found on the Podsafe Music Network (the PMN) that were playable. (Country and Western is right out, as well as some of the others didn't have the right feel for my show.) I've realized that these shows are a reaction to the over-homogenized pop productions which take non-talented people and process them trough a whole bunch of synthesizers until they sound "perfect" and "polished" when they can, in fact, barely hold a note and would be would be check out clerks at a big box store if it wasn't for their ability and willingness to shake their asses. The voices you have heard and will hear on this show are the real voices of the real artists, warts and all. Enjoy. ---- "Saying Sorry Sucks" by: "Atomsplit" http://www.atomsplit.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Making Me Nervous" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Sudden Death - Getting Old Sucks" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/ "Thesis:" Some days you discover how horrible, hideous and ugly life can seem. Thank whatever powers that be that I've only got MS. I'm breathing at least. Lets listen to Shauna as she describes "shit happening." ---- "Gotcha gotcha sucker" by: "G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S" http://www.ironmanrecords.co.uk/ "Synthesis:" A week ago, a horrifying motor vehicle accident occurred in northern New Brunswick. It claimed the lives of 7 members of a boys basketball team and the wife of the coach and driver of the van. 8 lives gone in the blink of a second. For the past week, that small community has been mourning their loss. Actually, the entire country, and even internationally, people have felt the pain of Bathurst's loss. There was a mass wake followed by a mass funeral in a hockey arena, as the churches couldn't accommodate the number of people who would be in attendance. The accident (and the aftermath) has been the lead story in the news all week long, and some footage was shown of different people eulogizing the young men. One statement about one of the kids really struck home for me. In describing the type of person he had been, the speaker said the kid was of the opinion that "If you suck, life does, too". Those 6 words precisely sum up The Secret, cognitive behaviour therapy, and Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. So don't suck. A simple thing to say, and if you say it out loud, it's actually quite amusing. But how do you "not suck"? Hmmm. Therein lies the difficulty. Some people seem to have a natural tendency to be positive about anything. And some have a tendency to be negative. I know a guy who, if he had won the lottery, would have complained about the gas money it would cost him to go pick up his millions. Since I've been writing this blog, I have discovered a lot of other MSers who are also blogging. And some of those blogs can be downright depressing to read. But one prompted me to write this post. Linda, at Brain Cheese, wrote a post subtitled Should I Feel Bad about Feeling Good? Go read it. I'll wait for you to come back....... Hit the nail on the head, for me. I look "mahvelous", have no disability, and feel pretty damn good. There are a few little annoyances, but others can't see or hear them. I am certainly not the poster child for this disease. Maybe I could be the poster child for the "best case scenario" of MS. I sometimes feel a little guilty about doing so well when others are deteriorating around me. I saw a man recently who is deteriorating at an alarming rate. He saw me and how well I'm doing and he said "There's hope for me yet". I'm not a neurologist but I have little hope for this man getting back anything he's lost. I didn't say that of course, just held his hand and said there's always hope. But I felt really guilty. After reading Linda's post I realized I have nothing to feel guilty about. I don't appear sick and have few symptoms, but having MS is always at the back of my mind. Every time I drop something, my keys for example, I'm analyzing why. Did I just not have a good enough grip on them, did I have something else in my hand, or am I having another attack? Every time I have a "brain fart" I wonder if it's just normal human forgetting or is the MS eating my brain? I could dwell on the facts of this disease and wonder every day if this might be the day I lose my sight, or my legs, or control of my bladder. But living like that sucks. People who live like that drain the energy out of those around them. Each day is another chance to show someone that you can have a good life even with MS. And that doesn't suck. Neither do I. ---- "Suck Hard" by: "Noctaluca" http://www.noctaluca.com/ "Conclusion:" Yes "Shauna" you don't suck, and life can be good despite MS. And I think I don't suck either, despite my MS. But Toronto sucks. ---- "The Toronto Song (2001) " by: "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dead_Trolls_in_a_Baggie The demise of the Trolls is to be lamented. Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Saying Sorry Sucks" by: "Atomsplit" http://www.atomsplit.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Making Me Nervous" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Sudden Death - Getting Old Sucks" by: "The FuMP" http://www.thefump.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Gotcha gotcha sucker" by: "G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S" http://www.ironmanrecords.co.uk/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Suck Hard" by: "Noctaluca" http://www.noctaluca.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Toronto Song (2001)" by: "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dead_Trolls_in_a_Baggie album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 March 2008 msb-0269 Sons And Daughtersintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... I habe a code in da nose and I feel like crap, [sigh] Those are the songs I found on the Podsafe Music Network (the PMN) that were playable. (Country and Western is right out and some of the others didn't have the right feel for my show.) Enjoy. "Shauna MacKinnon" will be around for the next 'cast to tell us all not to suck. ---- "Sons of the Burgess Shale" by: "Bell Hollow" http://www.bellhollow.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "The Sons of Cain" by: "Ted Leo and The Pharmacists" http://www.tedleo.com/ Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "To Your Sons" by: "Smeer" http://www.smeer.com/ "Thesis:" I was watching "48 Hours Mystery" (something I rarely ever do 'cause I've only got a 13" piece of aerial dis-connected crap, [and that's 13" more than I want really,]) and I'm seeing some other people who's lives are a lot tougher than mine, (and they've all got a complete inventory of parts and in working order.) ---- "Sons of Women" by: "Sarah Donner" http://www.sarahdonner.com/ "Synthesis:" As I sit here, safe and sound (there's some people who'd say that my mind is obviously "un"sound,) in my own house, master of all I survey (admittedly I don't see very far,) I want to say that in the larger scheme of things, it could be a lot worse. That might sound like sour-grapes but, despite it all, it isn't. I have perspective. Yup I have MS. Yup it sucks the big one. Yup I can't work for anybody else now because I look too old with my graying hair and too disabled, "schleping" around as I do with a cane. Yup its because of "potential" health care costs. (You're safe. I won't go on about my favorite bug-bear.) Yup I am now relying on my wife to keep earning enough to pay for the condo since she is now the sole bread-winner in the house. Shit happened. Shit would have happened anyway, It could have been worse. Of course just because I have MS doesn't mean I won't get something else. After all, uh, "shit happens". ---- "The Captains Daughter" by: "The Chronicles" http://www.myspace.com/chroniclesrock "Conclusion:" Yeah, we've got it tough but lets not lose perspective. There's a lot uglier out there. Now to get back on my high horse and resume the health care system and hypodermic avoidance crusades. "Allons Rossinante, en avant vers le prochain moulin à vent." (I wont spoil your fun and I'll let you Google "Rossinante".) ---- "Goodbye Daughters of The Revolution" by: "The Black Crowes" http://www.blackcrowes.com/ And if anyone should wonder if this podcast will sink into oblivion without ever seeing a dime, I refer any nay-sayers to this "article" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/media/27adco.html?ref=technology ] in the New York Times about that very fact. Advertising is moving to the internet as the choice of advertisers who are looking for bang for their buck and looking not to waste any money in their quest to build on customer relationships. With a 0.083% rate of return for broadcast ads, as opposed to 100% for the podcast ads, we've got a much better economic model. But I'll come back to this topic at greater length in my next episode, after Shauna MacKinnon regales us by, uh, "not sucking". Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Sons of the Burgess Shale" by: "Bell Hollow" http://www.bellhollow.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Sons of Cain" by: "Ted Leo and The Pharmacists" http://www.tedleo.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "To Your Sons" by: "Smeer" http://www.smeer.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Sons of Women" by: "Sarah Donner" http://www.sarahdonner.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Captains Daughter" by: "The Chronicles" http://www.myspace.com/chroniclesrock album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Goodbye Daughters of The Revolution" by: "The Black Crowes" http://www.blackcrowes.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 March 2008 msb-fr-0001 La Sclérose en Plaque: Fléau Oû Carême?intro Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu! MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical. Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens. Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie. Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur. Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances. ---- À Moi oûvre le programme, donc... Comme ce n'est que la premiere edition, vous ne m'avez rien dis encore. Cette phase va passer vite, j'espere... :-) ---- "Arabesque-Flamenco" par: "Stevan Romano" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=becd05d0a5552cc73f434342782585a4 À Vous suit, donc... Ceci est votre segment. Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment. Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger. Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Ca y est" par: "Edie" http://ediemusic.com/ À L'aide est en troisième, donc... Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen? Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast. Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un coût de $30 le millier d'impressions visé au SP'cimen.) Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement. Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".) Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel. L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle. Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé... Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Minor's Heaven" par: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ "Thèse:" Bienvenu a ce podcast inaugural Francophone de MSBPodcast.com. Ce podcast existe pour nous, les SP'cimen, pour nous donner voix, pour nous donner une présence dans un monde trop préocuppé pour faire attention. ---- "The Reformation Polka" par: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ "Synthèse:" Je réalise que les critiques du monde Francophone sont forcément differentes des critiques d'ici aux Etats' Unis et que je ne connais "rien" des situations en place, sauf que nous partageons tous le même problème: nous avons tous la sclérose en plaques. Mais, ceci n'est pas un podcast medical. Loin de la. C'est un podcast produit par, et dedicacé aux, personnes affligées par la sclérose en plaques. Il a pour but de nous permettre quelque chose d'incroyable: de nous donner un certain pouvoir en vers cette maladie et ces symptomes. Il a pour but secondaire donner voix aux milliers de personnes et de compagnies qui peuvent nous aider mais seulement si ont pourrait savoir leur existences. Aussi, je solicite vos commentaires et vos points de mire sur la sclérose en plaque. Ma cible préférée du système de santé ici aux États-Unis ne s'applique pas aux monde Francophone. Mais, il me reste toujours la cible d'la dépendance entêtée et manquante d'imagination des docteurs sur l'utilization des aiguilles hypodermiques, en dépit de la supérioritée de l'inhalation d'immuno-inhibiteurs. ---- "Song for A Girl Named Phil" par: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ "Conclusion:" Bienvenu a ce podcast inaugural du service Francophone de MSBPodcast.com. Parceque mon Français m'est presque aussi pénible a parler qu'il doit vous ètre a l'entendre, je vais essaier de rester avec un horaire hebdomadaire, a comparer au programme Anglophone qui parait trois fois par semaine. Mais si un de vous voulais se joindre a nous, le Francais pourrait ètre mieux représenté. ---- "Greensleeves" par: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ Outro Désolé mais la loi DADVSI (« droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la société de l'information ») me défend de vous faire parvenir de la musique Francaise. Le situation pourrait changer mais, jusqu'a ce jour, je suis forcé d'utiliser les chansons provenantes du PMN (Podsafe Music Network.) ---- Theme et musique 'incidentelle" provient de: "msb_theme", par: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Liste des chansons: "Arabesque-Flamenco" par: "Stevan Romano" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=becd05d0a5552cc73f434342782585a4 album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Ca y est" par: "Edie" http://ediemusic.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Minor's Heaven" par: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "The Reformation Polka" par: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Song for A Girl Named Phil" par: "Reginald Clair" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reginaldclair/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Greensleeves" par: "Fugli" http://povera.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Crédits Photo: Toutes les images, synchronizées avec les chansons, sont des artistes at proviennes de music.podshow.com excepté quand elle ne le sont pas. :-) ---- Livres: ---- Liens: Guy David - intro & thème http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware alias Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes, lien direct à ce podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ Ce podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ Le Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 Direct download: msb-fr-0001_La_Sclrose_en_Plaque__Flau_O_Carme_.m4a Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:07 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 1 March 2008 msb-0268 This Must Be A Leap Yearintro Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast. It is by and for MSers. Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease. The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn. The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge. ---- Feedback comes first, so... My wife and I are out having fun so this is a show with absolutely nothing of any consequence to report. Enjoy. ---- "Leaps and Bounds" by: "Brian Lauri Project" http://brilaurimusic.com/ Feed Forward comes next, so... This is "your" segment. Say "your" piece on this segment. Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share. Drop me an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Leap Of Faith" by: "Woodstock Taylor" http://www.myspace.com/woodstocktaylor Feed Me comes third, so... Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers? Consider advertising on this podcast. Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.) It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download. That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".) But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material. No play, no pay. Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested... Send me an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com" ---- "Leap of Faith" by: "Pudge" http://pudge.net/tunes/ "Thesis:" If this show has a theme its that, as you dangle over the precipice of the future, sometimes you just have to let go and take a leap of faith. Okay, it has really another theme. Its about not a leap "of" faith but a leap "from" faith. You "can't" run heath-care for profit like the other sectors of the economy. ("Holy Jeez," is he on about that again? You bet your bippy.) You end up with people, on both sides of an un-winnable argument, like "this" one between an insurer and an insured, at least until the insurer dropped her, "in the middle of her chemotherapy". [ http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jf3kOQZF8y9J9WqUVv0NCuUHA_OgD8V04O800 ] We all know what would have happened if the woman had "not" won a huge judgment against the insurer; she would have been dead and some people would have felt bad but have collected a bonus to assuage their conscience. (She happened on a judge with more integrity than most of the judges out there. [Most claims, some as necessary as this one, get rejected. {And I can get the insurance industry's own statistics to back me up.}]) And what about people "not" getting certain tests [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/health/24dna.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin ] because they fear they might be denied coverage. Why not? The answer from the insurers themselves is most telling: "In 7 of 92 underwriting decisions, insurance providers evaluating hypothetical applicants said they would deny coverage, charge more for premiums or exclude certain conditions from coverage based on genetic test results." How many others have lost their insurance coverage and ended up fertilizing the insurance company's back lawn? Those insurance companies, sometimes the same ones, in other parts of the world "don't" have to put up with the inexorable bottom line which requires that their employees sometimes not sleep so well because their decision about someone's coverage may very well have been terminal. But in winning for herself, she lost for others of us. The insurance companies will be more careful and quick to deny because those decisions impact their bottom line. (As emperor Vespasian said: "Money has no odor" It is also devoid of honor and devoid of conscience. [Its an instrument wielded with only as much malice as is in the hear of its wielder. {Most people have much to be ashamed of as they go wraith-like through life..}]) ---- You have to use some of that rarest of commodities: "common sense". For as song as we have kept statistics, the statistics have shown that 15% of the population is disabled in some way or another. The individuals in the 15% may change because some of them die and some of them get better while new people join in, but there is always that 15%. Why not open your eyes and say: "Its society's problem, let society deal with it, the same way it deals with defense." What is not any body's problem is everybody's problem. That's what practically, (emphasis on practically,) "everybody else" on this planet has done. Just deal with it. There are so fewer possibilities for fraud, so fewer possibilities for ripping off the system when there's only "one" system. ---- "Leap Of Faith" by: "Stewart Coleman" http://www.audiothought.com/ "Synthesis:" Yup. The statistics kept by the World Health Organization (the WHO,) show that 15%, that's more than one in eight of us, is disabled. Okay. Its from every possible kind of sickness, with every kind of possible ailment from deafness to disembowelment, with every kind of condition and running to every duration. You cant run health for profit because its doesn't make any sense to try to operate with a divided actuarial base. Health is a "societal" cost. Its not logical to attempt to divide an undifferentiated mass of humanity into different sectors to extract some profit when, while there might be risk factors associated with behavior, there are all sorts of disease which just "happen" and the definition of an accident is "shit just happened". The current health "don't" care system is a legacy of the administration of "Richard Millhouse Nixon", [ http://www.pr.com/article/1068 ] who really "didn't" give a flying fuck about anything if it wasn't getting him some votes. But the "Humana" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humana ] solution was getting him out of a political pickle, so he went for it. He didn't give a flying fuck about the Chinese either; but going there was a strategic good move. He looked very statesman like. Now look at who holds most of the paper for our idiotic debacles. Now look at who is making most of the consumer goods we import, (and with the late Sam Walton's blessing too). Well, lets see if one of the candidates thinks socialized medicine under the guise of "dog-eat-dog good ol' American capitalism, but only with just a single teat to suck on" can get him or her some votes. Lets see if it rings a bell with "Barack Obama" (or "Hillary Clinton" [or even "John McCain", {who "could" come to his senses, (but I doubt it, Republicans since "Herbert Hoover" or have been known more for screwing things up than anything else. [Have any of them given a single "thought" to the ill or handicapped? {Nader's supposedly getting back in the harness and running, but he's got no cred as a candidate.}])}]) ---- "Leap Of Faith" by: "John Taglieri" http://johntaglieri.com/ "Conclusion:" Of course that doesn't mean that we can expect things to improve auto-magically. There is nothing as stubborn in the face of evidence as human cussedness. How long did we think the earth was flat despite the visible curvature of the sea when seen from atop a bluff? How long did we think the size of an object determined how fast it would fall? How many roads must a man, uh, no, that's Robert Zimmerman, (a.k.a. Bob Dylan.) Human beings are strange creatures. We'll just have to watch what's happening and try to derive what ever benefits can be wrung out of whatever situation we find ourselves in, every last one. Nobody ever got squat from an insurance company except a dividend. Listen to this: with life insurance, they insure you and if you die before they thought you would, you "win". "Woop-dee-the-friggin'-doo!" That's a chump's game. But, as long as we keep working towards it, the future "will" get better, for everybody. ---- "leap over" by: "Groove Factory Conobus" http://www.cdbaby.com/gfconobus Outro ---- Theme and 'incidental music' from: "msb_theme", by: "Guy David", http://www.guydavid.com/ no album, via personal contract Song list "Leaps and Bounds" by: "Brian Lauri Project" http://brilaurimusic.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Leap Of Faith" by: "Woodstock Taylor" http://www.myspace.com/woodstocktaylor album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Leap of Faith" by: "Pudge" http://pudge.net/tunes/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Leap Of Faith" by: "Stewart Coleman" http://www.audiothought.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "Leap Of Faith" by: "John Taglieri" http://johntaglieri.com/ album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ "leap over" by: "Groove Factory Conobus" http://www.cdbaby.com/gfconobus album: "none via: http://music.podshow.com/ ---- Photo Credits: All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-) ---- Books: "Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures" by "Carl Zimmer" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "Survival of the Sickest" by "Dr. Sharon Moalem" ISBN: 978-0-06-088965-4" "The Microphone Wars" by "Knowlton Nash" ISBN: 0-7710-6712-7 "The Stuff of Thought" by" "Steven Pinker" ISBN: 978-0743200110 "The Body Has a Mind of Its Own" by: "Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee" ISBN: 978-1-4000-6469-4 "The Mind & The Brain" by "Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley" ISBN: 978-0-06-098847-0 "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" by "Norman Doidge" ISBN-13: 978-0143113102 "Society of Mind" by "Marvin Minsky" ISBN: 978-0671657130 "Eisenhower" by "John Wukovits" ISBN: 978-1-4039-7137-1 ---- Links: Guy David - intro & theme http://www.guydavid.com iTunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ iPodder http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware A.K.A. Juice http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php iTunes link to download this show http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170 Multiple Sclerosis Blog http://multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ This podcast: http://www.MSBPodcast.com/ The Ouch Podcast http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=137157388 ---- You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com Comments[0] |
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