msb's The Disability Show http://msb.libsyn.com From iTunes: "As a newly diagnosed MS'r I was so pleased to find a podcast that didn't just center around information about a bleak future. I'm trying to retain a sense of humor here... and relaxation plays an important part. Thank you Charles, for what must be an exhausting venture for you. I'm with you all the way !!!" -Jean <a href="http://www.mevio.com/"> Mevio </a> {Mevio-9f4bcd469bdbac8b96c578d8be10a28a} en Charles-A. Rovira charles@MSBPodcast.com (Charles-A. Rovira) Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT 180 MSB's The Disability Show Shifting from focusing exclusively on MS to encompassing ALL disabilities. Podsafe, music, Disability Show, MSB, Multiple Sclerosis, MS Charles-A. Rovira msb@artdogs.org Charles-A. Rovira http://libsyn.com/podcasts/msb/images/Aixe-la-Chapelle.jpg msb's The Disability Show http://msb.libsyn.com SPC Regents Business Symposium 2009/11/06 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=546364#
Speaker's were:

Byron Pitts
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Bret Hammond
Ali Velshi

I've cut out most of the crowd noise, splices in some interviews carried on with all of the speakers by Professor Joseph Lamachia and put some Scarlatti (Sonata in E Major, K. 380) over the discontinuities.

Enjoy almost being there.
]]> podcasts Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:43:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=546364# Charles-A. Rovira No spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0048 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=540275#
Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0048.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> ""
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This is episode 48

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

----

Last week I suffered from a major brain fart which wiped out this episode as I was saving the final product.

Yup a major oops. And its "mea culpa."  Something broke in my workflow.

They happen.

Like I spent the week-end frantically preparing for, doing research on and eventually applied for a job on the SPC website with almost two megabyte  of supporting evidence gathered while examining every damn page doing due diligence for the job of "Assistant Director of Web Strategies and Communications."

(Did you know the site consists of 1,890 page, 128 of which are there redirecting people to another page because of a structural problem in the page naming scheme [SPC uses numbers,] there is no versioning system, no galleries for pictures, [they're embedded right on the pages,] and some of the pages are there because test and development are being done in the production environment.

The SPC web site is really amateurish. And that is my professional opinion as someone who did it for banks. You would never entrust building an ATM to these people. )

Turns out that the job had been filled previously some time back, but nobody had thought to take the friggin' posting down.

Grrr. This is the kind of ineptitude that I keep encountering. "Its not my job..." or "I didn't know I had to take that down."

God how do these people keep food on the table, I'm sure I don't know.

The lack of coordination in this college is proof that the staff is almost dysfunctional.

Here comes the last side of record 5  and both sides of record 6 of "The Jazz Singers."

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This episode featured the following music:

"How High the Moon" by: "The Metronome All Stars feat. Billy Eckstine" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I'm Just a Lucky So And So" by: "Al Hibbler with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"There's a Small Hotel" by: "Joe Williams with Harry Edison & his band" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Dedicated to You" by: "Johnny Hartman and the John Coltrane Quartet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"It Had To Be You" by: "Ray Charles" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"When Did You Leave Heaven?" by: "Henry "Red" Allen & his Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Think Of Me, LIttle Daddy" by: "Trummy Young with Jimmy Lunceford & his orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Mumbles" by: "Clark Terry with the Oscar Peterson Trio" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Tea For Two" by: "Joe Mooney Quartet" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Dear Bix" by: "Dave Frishberg" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Chinatown, My Chinatown" by: "Slim And Slam (Bulee "Slim" Gaillard & Leroy Elliott "Slam" Stewart)" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Professor Bop" by: "Babs Gonzales" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Cloudburst" by: "Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"In The Mood For Love" by: "KIng Pleasure" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Yardbird Suite" by: "Bob Dorough" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Oh What A Night For Love" by: "Mel Torme" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:17:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=540275# Charles-A. Rovira No wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0014 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=539525#
YouTube video(s):

"Swine Flu Song" by: "PutnamPig"

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

----

I just ran across something (a couple of weeks ago as you hear it but this morning as I write this,) about our friend the swine flu.

Its [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/group/coping/forum/topic/show?id=1535194%3ATopic%3A16493 ] on the Disability Resource Exchange run by one of the sponsors of the MSB series of my shows: Rudy Sims.

I'll get back to Rudy later because he's a great guy and an inspiration. He's sparking of lots of ideas in my febrile little brain. :-)

---- "Wicked Eyed Mule" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

Before you get the idea that I don't take swine flu seriously, I do, and I don't.

"All,"  not some but "all," flu viruses begin their existence, mutating in the guts of Chinese ducks.

Swine flu, Spanish flu of 1918, Ethiopian large intestine flue of 1714 (I just made that one up, :-) it doesn't matter. They "ALL" begin life pullulating in the gut of Chinese ducks.

Get rid of Chinese ducks and the flu would be eliminated and we'd have to become prey to something else, like Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus, Ordog Fever, or Machupo virus, or the Marburg virus or maybe to the Ebola virus. (They're in Wikipedia, look 'em all up if you wanna gross yourselves out.)

It doesn't matter.

Something going to have our number.

We just happen to be susceptible to something in Chinese duck poop.

And despite the thousands of little tragedies it causes every year, things could be a lot worse.

---- "Too Late"  By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

The article goes on about hygiene (very important) and contagion (how to avoid catching all of the nasties out there.)

---- "Business Ain't Music" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/

We should heed the advice to avoid people. Good luck in a school. Its like swimming in a cess pit of germs, disease and infection.  

---- "Pay For This" By: "Maria Daines http://www.maria-daines.com/
 
Frankly, there are so many ways to "cease to be", to ring down the curtain and join the choir invisible, to [expletive deleted] snuff it that its a wonder that we're alive in the first place.

---- "So Many Ways I could Kill You" by: "Madsumo" http://www.madsumo.com/

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:05:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=539525# Charles-A. Rovira No spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0047 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=534805#
Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0047.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> ""
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----

This is episode 47

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

----

I have been busy, busy, busy.

This week I finish off Roy Elderidge before starting with a 4 album series called "The Jazz Singers"

I'm going to pause between the songs to tell you something about who they've actually featuring.

Adelante la musica.

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Dale's Wall" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Still Love Him So" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Wailing" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"How Long Has This Been Going On" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Hanid" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Undecided" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"My Honey's Lovin' Arms" by: "Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Ain't got Nobody" by: "Cab Callowy & His Orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Love Me" by: "Jack Teagarden" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" by: "George Thomas with McKiney's Cotton Pickers" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"As Long as I Live" by: "Red McKenzie & The Spirit of Rythm" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I want a Little Girl" by: "Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie & his orchestra" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"You Set Me On Fire" by: "Pha Terrell with Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

'How High The Moon: by: "The MetronomeAll Stars feat. Bily Eckstine" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:59:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=534805# Charles-A. Rovira No wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013.5 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=533976#
YouTube video(s):

"" by: ""

..

----

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

----

Sorry but this time I was following the lure of a job and the time I would have spent preparing a show was eaten writing up a new version of an old rÃsumÃ, emailing and snail mailing it.

For the next 49 minutes of so, you're going to hear one of my favorite musicians Aaron English.

----

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

----

YouTube video(s):

"" by: ""

The music this time was:


 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/


 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/


 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/


 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/


 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/]]> podcasts Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:47:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=533976# Charles-A. Rovira No spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=532252#
Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0046.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> "Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge 1942"
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----

This is episode 46

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

This summer, I discovered I could write and assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Its also live at MSBPodcast.com.

----

I discovered that even if:
â you keep complete backups (and I do,) and
â have spare equipment as backup (and I do,)
 it still takes a lo-ong time to get a 319GB drive image off of the backup and restore it to the active drive.

And the studio is looking at using a terabyte drive.

Nah â I don't think so.

Using a pair of 500GB drives, mirroring each other, and ordering a new pair of drives when, not if but when, a 'live' drive fails is a good strategy to keep the studio running.

You can still be operating on the redundant drive while waiting for the new drives to arrive. (I'd order them then for two reasons:
1) the drives will both be fresh from the manufacturer and
2) the price is likely to drop between my original order and the replacement order.)

Then you're going to have to pull the data off the 'live' drive, make an incremental snapshot backup, roll the all of data onto the new drives, at least, a day or so after you've started the process, be able to swap the new pair in.

320GB of data is not like copying a floppy.  Its more like copying 3,200 floppies. It takes more time than you'd think. A lot more.

500GB of data is just that much more, 180GB more.

And if you're wondering why I'm not just keeping the old drive.

It's matched twin has already failed.

How long do you think the survivor has?

Get ready to use it in some less critical use than keeping a studio up and running.

----

Now, here comes some Roy Elderidge

Adelante la musica.

----

This episode featured the following music:

"Here Comes Cookie" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Jangled Nerves" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Swing Is Here" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"After You're Gone" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Wabash Stomp" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Heckler's Hop" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"What Shall I Say" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Rockin' Chair" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"The Gasser" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Minor Jive" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fiesta in Brass" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"St Louis Blues" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Little Jazz" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Twilight Time" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Fireworks" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Remember Harlem" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Easter Parade" by: "Roy Elderidge" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

----

The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:12:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=532252# Charles-A. Rovira No One of my hard drives died... http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=531270#
One of my hard drives died (won't mount,) and that's the one that holds all of my audio, show scripts, fragments, etc .

Sorry but I have to try to get it to work before I scrap it...

Okay, drama is done.

Drive is replaced but recovery takes time.

I know what I have to do to reduce that time.
]]> Oops... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=531270# Charles-A. Rovira No spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0045 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=527832#
Direct link to the episode:

m4a -> http://media.libsyn.com/media/msb/spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0045.m4a

Video Links

YouTube -> "Money" by: "Pink Floyd"
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Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you're okay.
Money, its a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think Ill buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
Im all right jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, its a hit.
Dont give me that do goody good bullshit.
Im in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a lear jet.

Money, its a crime.
Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that theyre
Giving none away.

Huhuh! I was in the right!
Yes, absolutely in the right!
I certainly was in the right!
You was definitely in the right. that geezer was cruising for a
Bruising!
Yeah!
Why does anyone do anything?
I dont know, I was really drunk at the time!
I was just telling him, he couldnt get into number 2. he was asking
Why he wasnt coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
Screaming and telling him why he wasnt coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out

----

This is episode 45

I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, and you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

Here comes some more Louis Armstrong aka Satch'mo.

But first I'm going to reveal why I am about to  leave you for, uh, snowier pastures, for my health â care, abandoning you to your own fates.

---- vvvv The Media Squat vvvv ----

As a Canadian, a member of a civilized and industrialized country, I would like to give some explanation as to why I am choosing to head back to Canada for my health care instead of staying here in the 'States.

Basically, I'm choosing to go the Snowbird route because Americans don't understand probability. (Which sort of explains all of "Las Vegas," doesn't it? A town whose entire "raison d'Ãtre" owes to the fact that Meir Lansky understood all too well the innumeracy of his fellow citizens.)

On the one hand this lack of understanding gives them endless optimism, even in the face of statistical certainty.

On the other hand, it puts them entirely at the mercy of their own ruthlessly efficient rapaciousness.

And smack in the middle is the unpleasant truth that there is a word for people who keep on repeating the same stupid mistake, hoping that this one time they'll get a different outcome, and that word is [bleep].

Lets look at the statistics gathered by the misnamed World Health Organization (I say misnamed because, for the purposes of this little "exposÃ," its really the view of the world as seen from the vantage point of the very 1960s, "looking for all the world like a enormous, humongous Fram air filter sitting in front a wall of dirty glass wall," building of the Pan American Health Organizations on the corner of East 23rd Street and E Street in Washington DC,) and those statistics, as revealed in actuarial tables, are that 15% of the population at some point, for some reason, for some duration of time is disabled.

"But the US is not the entire world," I hear you cry.

No, it most certainly is not.

That is reflected in the fact that the US is on par with really third rate, third-world countries, at the very bottom of a list of health care providers, 39th out of a list of 39 industrialized countries, surpassed even by Cuba. [ http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cuba-Has-Bypassed-the-US-i-by-John-Little-090512-856.html ]

(Who would have thought that. even after a forty year long embargo, a tiny little country, a single island in the Caribbean, deprived of access to the rest of the world by the mighty United States, would still be better able to take care of a poor mother and her new born infant, than the short shrift she would get in Washington DC.)

The individuals might change, that is shown as some fuzziness on a graph, by a wider bar delineating the arbitrary separations thereon, but the numbers are remarkably stable.

----

The citizens of the USofA must face that they have a corporate monster in their midst, one that is entirely within their power to vanquish.

That monster dictates that it be fed first, last and, since it does not care about anything or anyone, that it be fed even if that means that you starve.

Like all parasites, it does not consider its host until it is dead. The "it" can refer to either the parasite or to the host and the parasite.

Lets consider the costs of not excising this fiscal cancer which is metastasizing in plain sight, right in your midsts.

Consider that the costs of health care are far more than just the formidable tab of illness in this country, (already by far the highest in the world.
[As an aside, did you know that your stay in a hospital is called hotel services?
Do you think any hotel or even "We'd leave a light on fur ya" motel X in the world would not be a smoldering pile of embers if it tried to pull the [bleep] that you're put through in a night in the hospital?
{And I spent five weeks in the Ottawa General Hospital, and no time at all in a Brooklyn hospital
(and guess which one has left me using a cane since, maybe I should have, uh,
[hint, it wasn't Ottawa,]) so I know that whereof I speak.}])

Consider that it constricts your movements. (Your "God Given" right to "head on the highway of your choice, tossing out Big Mac and artery clogging Freedom Fries wrappers onto the road, smoking big ol' fat Dominican cigars, looking for whatever opportunities lie over the next blighted ridge," is being curtailed and your horizons are being shrunk much closer, much tighter than those of the poor South American migrant workers you have to hire now 'cause there's nobody left to mow your lawn or to haul away your toxic wastes for the skin-flint wages you're willing to pay. [Except when you aren't even willing to part with that much and screw 'em out of the money. {Why not? What are they gonna do? Call the cops? (Bwahaha ha. I slay meâ)}])

Consider that you don't dare go anywhere to look for a better job either, because you might lose your coverage, so you are stuck in dead-end jobs, working for peanuts and feeling your life ebb joylessly away.

Consider that you better not dare get sick either because that might be considered cause for denying you coverage. (Think about that for a minute. "You don't dare get sick because that might be considered cause for denying you coverage." Then why are you paying for a policy?)

Consider that you'll probably get sick anyway, everybody does, sometimes severely (the actuarial tables say you're fighting one in eight odds to be the one in eight who does,) and then you'll discover that the insurance company may decline to cover you anyway.

(I'm sorry you got cancer but you didn't tell your doctor you had acne as a teen-ager so we're declining you your chemotherapy. And you owe us for the clinic visit because we decided to challenge it retroactively. [I wish I was kidding but the case, the HMO policy it exposed and congressional testimony where it was recorded has been well covered in the media and documented.])

Consider that the The #1 reason for personal bankruptcy in America, responsible for more than half of bankruptcies filed nation-wide, happens to be failing health. [ http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/10/3-top-reasons-why-people-go-bankrupt/ ]

Bush made it rougher to declare personal bankruptcy, and still about 2 million personal bankruptcies per year can be traced to medical expenses [ http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/other/hb050202c.htm ]

If the HMOs thought could get away with it, death would just transfer the debt to a person's inheritors so the survivors could just keep on paying for systemic failure.

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Consider that personal bankruptcy is rarely limited to one person.

People are rarely alone, so their wives or husbands or life-partners, children and pets are bankrupted right along with them.

If a parent fall sick, it usually means an abrupt end to the children's education, regardless of how well the children were doing.

That costs everybody every cent of what that child could have been earning (and of what taxes could have been collected on those higher earnings.)

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Consider that of those people, broken on the wheel of medical bills, have had to sell everything at fire-sale prices; house first, furniture as part of that, then car (which everywhere but the major metropolitan centers means you have just developed a bad case social leprosy,) clothing â everything.

Consider what your chances are of recovering from a severe illness when you're made homeless because of that very illness. Are they slim, or none?

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Incidentally, that cheapens the value of everything that anybody else owns.

The cost in dollar amount, an arbitrary figure at best, but nonetheless a reflection of the price of a product and/or or its production, and the value of things are shrunk before your very eyes.

Treasured pictures and "objets d'art" are immediately reduced to the cost of their constituent parts; thus a van Gogh is reduced to an assemblage of used old canvas and a few scrapings of pigment, an Annie Leibowitz photograph is reduced to the cost of a roll of used film; a Rodin sculpture is reduced to its weight its weight in metal, clay or stone.

That's part the true cost of not having health care in this country.

Lost opportunities squandered like so much chaff because of the greed and rapaciousness of some companies, some corporations, some eternal infernal problems that are holding you by the throat tighter and tighter and squeezing the life, the fun and the free will out of this country.

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Insurance companies are at a tipping point in their battle with the citizens of this country.

Are they really bigger than the 15% of the economy, of the population they are alleged to serve?

Then something is dreadfully wrong. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213783/UKs-doctors-write-letter-U-S-politicians-battle-lies-NHS.html ]

The UK health-care runs at about 8% of GDP and provide universal coverage.

In the US it runs at around 16% of GDP and there are 45 million uninsured, 25 million under-insured.

The insurance only applies for the first time because after that its a pre-existing condition, and we have congressional testimony as to what that means.

The 'States is beginning an accelerating  decline into irrelevance because it has frittered away the so called "Peace Dividend" that it got with the end of the "cold war", at the collapse of the Soviet Union, by countless fruitless pursuits.

The stock market started the Bush regime at 9,605 and eight years later, it stood at precisely 9,605. For business, the experiment with uber-capitalism has been a wash.

For the citizens stuck in a couple of trillion dollars of extra long-term debt, they've watched their future get mortgaged away.

Bush also took sympathy at the loss of the World Trade Center and turned it into universal opprobrium and hostility.

Bush managed to take The United States from a position of pre-eminence in all endeavors and reduced them into an economically and militarily deflated also-ran.
(Why do you think Kim Jong Un is laughing at you? He's leader of isolated, rinky dink North Korea and he's got more pull than the USofA. What he says goes. What Obama says is open to ridicule, endless debate and downright hostility.)

Oh and insurance company executives, don't think you can wave the flag like a magic wand.

Returning veterans have an entirely different view of combat  and armed conflict that you do.

Don't think that the people who are thrown out of their homes are magicked away into a never-never land.

They may end up filling the trailer parks, but the memory of having owned a ranch house is gnawing at the insides of the people you have so disposed.

Don't think that you aren't at risk of joining them either

There are millions more of them than before Bush took office. The edifice of commerce is getting shakier by the day.

As the HMOs toss people and corporations aside to avoid doing their duty by them, you may get a surprise and suddenly discover that you have tossed out the wrong person or corporation, one who can hurt you, big time.

Those darn survivors are an inconvenience aren't they?

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Consider that the never mindful, ultra capitalist "Wall Street" firms who are in bed with the HMOs, locked as they are in a mutual-fund embrace, and looking to squeeze the populace of the United States for the profit they should have had over the past eight years.

Consider that the stock market debacle, has erased all their gains and stands once again at 9,605.

Consider that the mortgage meltdown has left them holding their noses and holding their breath as they hold worthless paper.

Consider that the credit crunch has left them painfully exposed and forced to risk their own money instead of just screwing around with your money.

Consider that that means charging you, not mythical people, but you, ever increasing amounts for health-don't-care coverage while constantly and consistently denying any and all charges against that coverage, with ever increasing ferocity.

If you think it won't happen, look around youâ It already has.

The testimony is in your congressional record.

Health care for profit is not only an impossibility, but it is an obscenity; something only a parasite can regard as a right.

No one has a right to make a profit from the  death and misery of the sick and the dying.

By the end of this decade, I'm heading to Canada, because I canâ Its my home...

Come to your senses.

If you lined up all of the high priced doctors end to end, they have not done as much for the common weal as the equivalent length of sewer pipe.

If you piled up all of the expensive drugs, recreational and otherwise, they haven't done as much for the common weal as the equivalent weight in mosquito netting.

A cost benefit analysis of the health-don't-care system you've got should clue you into the fact that you're getting screwed.

And don't tout the achievements of the drug companies too loudly.

If it hadn't been for the government finally walking the [beep] up because Rock Hudson looked like [beep] when he died of AIDS, most of the developments in pharmacology, therapies and genomics wouldn't have happened; not without the National Institutes of Health ponying up the money for some real research.

Health for profit is only good for preventive medicines, therapies and regimens, and those aren't covered by any of your damned health-don't-care policies.

I'm opting out because Americans don't understand probability.

What were the odds, unh?

That may be good for running a casino, but it sucks if you're the one betting your health on life's little lottery.

I've already lost that bet once and I'm not going to risk going through this twice.

I'm going to Canada for my health â because I can.

Home is where they have to take you in when you show up at the door.

I refuse to get sick in the United States.

Consider that Nicole Hollander once remarked in her cartoon strip "Sylvia" [ http://www.gocomics.com/sylvia/ ] about growing old in the United States: "You're best to do it elsewhere."

That's a sad commentary on what the children of the self-proclaimed "greatest generation" have become.

---- ^^^^ The Media Squat ^^^^ ----

Now, adelante la musica.

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This episode featured the following music:

"Dusky Stevedore" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Solitude" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Swing that Music" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Darling Nellie Gray" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Red Cap" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"I Wonder" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Some Day" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"You Rascal You" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Song of the Islands" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Avalon" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Someday Sweetheart" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira


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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=527832# Charles-A. Rovira No wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0013 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=528385#
YouTube video(s):

"Meds" by: "Placebo"

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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

There is a phenomenon that I have always been fascinated by.

Its called "The Placebo Effect." [ http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect ]

Our minds are incredible things which have effects far beyond those we would expect.

Now, that does not extend to the mechanics of antibiotics and antivirals drugs discovered and refined since the middle of the last century, originally developed during another enterprise in killing, but placebos have effects which extend far beyond those of their components: "sugar, water, starch, and hope."

---- "Inertia" by: "Cat Jahnke (yong-kee)" http://www.catjahnke.com/

Because my father worked for Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, which became Merck/Frosst during his decades there, as a salesman, director of marketing and later as manager of their print shop, on and off of the Island of MontrÃal, I got exposed to all kinds of things that went on inside of that company.

Being a curious and interested kid, I listened intently, (and being a smart one, I shut up about it, so as not to remind the adults that I was indeed there. [You can learn the most amazing things that way. {Far more than people think they've revealed.}])

One of the most interesting was the measurement of the efficacy of drugs by the use of blind and double blind trials.

The technique was already old, having been conceived by "Claude Bernard" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard ] back in the middle and latter parts of the 19th century (He was a fascinating man from whom we have derived a lot of the scientific method, scepticism. I could do a show just about him.)

This was just after the second world war, when the power of the scientific method came to medicine, and there were any number of discoveries being made every day.

Journals were exploding in readership, and in content for all those new readers and writers. (Actually I would argue that those peer-reviewed scientific journals were the earliest manifestations of moderated blogging, being read by a motivated and specialized audience, any one of which could write in and contribute.)

Like all human endeavors, there were all kind of claims made and these were rife with B.S. from people selling "snake oil", which the scientific technique originated by Claude Bernard was quick to put to the test.

Any claim found wanting was usually found to be actionable instead and the Snake Oil salesman was, at best, "run out of town on a rail" [ http://www.takeourword.com/TOW204/page2.html ] (I'm quoting from a Take Our Word webpage here because it says it best: "The phrase in question here, of course, is riding the rail or to be run out of town on a rail.  You may be surprised to learn that it has nothing to do with the railroad and everything to do with with a fence rail.  How does one ride a rail?  This is a form of punishment in which a person is tied or held to a rail that is then paraded through town, and often out of town, on the shoulders of two or more men, presumably strong men.  The object is for all to see the transgressor and immediately recognize that he has done something wrong by virtue of the fact that he is tied to and riding on a rail, and thus to humiliate him. " )

At worst, these individuals were jailed for murder. (Making claims on medicines is serious business, because either people paid with their lives, leaving the inheritors to bury your mistakes, or people paid for the rest of their lives.)

---- "Inertia" by: "Josh Woodward" http://www.joshwoodward.com/

Placebos are bits inert "stuff" which should be having no effect, but "are," through the mechanisms of the mind and its ability to control the body.

Incidentally, I would recommend all interested people to download "All in the Mind" from the ABC Radio National [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73330911 ] as  Natasha Mitchell [ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/about/default.htm#presenter ] is a great host for an also great show.

---- "Inner Focus" by: "absentmachine" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=44463417

Controls occur at arbitrarily determined levels, but in general the mechanisms are perceptive and reactive.

The first occurs on the perceptions of how well we perceive ourselves to be.

This is just operating at the level of our own abilities to put differing values on the same sensory inputs.

Thus, what is an incredibly painful experience in one series of circumstances involving the literal death of tissue or the tearing of lignin which hold our muscles in fibre bundles, under other circumstances becomes "one Hell of a great hot-barbecue sauce," or "a workout that'll put some inches on your biceps and some hair on your chest."

It depends on what your expectations are (like the anticipation of pain is often worse than the pain itself.)

The ability of fakirs or sufis [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakir ] or if you'd rather use the Indian words sadhu, guru swami or yogi, to put themselves in trance like states is one very easily explained, explored and useful way beyond the ability to lie on a bed of nails, to slap one's forehead bloody, to walk barefoot on a bed of coals, to achieve an altered state of consciousness.

This is the goal of users of recreational drugs and other substances. (I'll stick to beer, thank you,)

---- "INNER QUEST" by: "v.f.d. " http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords

The second occurs at a more mysterious, nah strike that word, at a "less well understood," level of effecting remissions and outright cures when there are no commonly accepted causal relationships.

This is something I am familiar with at a superficial level because MS exhibits this, depending on what part of the brain is being used to carry the signals from the volition to the outcome. ("I have to move this leg" usually gets me a "Yeah, yeah, yeah â hold your waterâ" and a slow response from my body, while "Youch, that's HOT!" usually gets me a spastic hyper-reflexive jerk which certainly gets my hand off the handle of the pot and makes it become airborne, spilling its contents all over the damn stove.)

The mechanisms involved with semi-volitional healing, what used to be called "hysteria" by Freud or "faith healing" by revival tent preachers, neither term explaining a damn thing, involve the marshaling of the body's own forces, somehow.

We don't understand exactly what is involved at what level and in what order, we know that something is happening, caused by our own minds acting upon our own bodies to initiate a chain of events which leads us along a path from illness to wellness, but beyond the facts, we know very little and understand even less.

Well, two hundred years ago, we were burning people at the stake, one hundred years ago we were locking them up in asylums, fifty years ago we'd just discovered penicillin and that a lot of people still aren't too clear on the difference between causality and coincidence (and we won't mention the idiots who believe in demonic possession, vampires or space aliens,) so, no nothing surprises me anymore.

---- "The Awful Green Things From Outer Space" by: "Clouseaux" http://www.myspace.com/clouseaux

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

----

YouTube video(s):

"Meds" by "Placebo"
The music this time was:

"Inertia"
 by: "Cat Jahnke (yong-kee)"
 http://www.catjahnke.com/
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Inertia"
 by: "Josh Woodward"
 http://www.joshwoodward.com/
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Inner Focus"
 by: "absentmachine"
 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=44463417
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"INNER QUEST"
 by: "v.f.d. "
 http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"The Awful Green Things From Outer Space"
 by: "Clouseaux"
 http://www.myspace.com/clouseaux
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/]]> podcasts Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=528385# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0388 Move Over MS http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=528306#
YouTube videos:

"Move It On Over"  by: "Hank Williams'"
..

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...

Shivver me timbers, oi missed "International Talk loik a Pirate Day", but it were few days ago , the nineteenth of September. Arrrr,,,

Sorry Miss Chris but the video to accompany this episode is by Hank Williams.

It seemed like a perfect accompaniment to the topic.

I know you're not into C&W, but at least its not on the program itself.
 
---- "I Gotta Move On" by: "Andre Bisson" http://www.andrebisson.ca/

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"
 
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This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.
 
Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]
 
Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.
 
It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.
 
MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.
 
I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.
 
I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.
 
---- "Move On" by: "Wes Jeans" http://www.myspace.com/wesjeans
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.
 
It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.
 
If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.
 
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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.
 
I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.
 
I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.
 
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The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]
 
The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.
 
BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]
 
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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]
 
Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.
 
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My Book is out and Lulu are still [expletive deleted] but I don't have a choice anymore so lets make the best of it until I write a book about The Disability Show.
 
Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

It is awesome.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]
 
---- "Move On" by: "Robb McMahan" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

"Thesis:"

I'm sitting at my desk looking at some pointless and utterly unrelated images of people, and a bowl of fruit?

"moveoverms.org" sent me a email asking me to help them build an even better site.

[slow exhalation]

Wait. It gets even betterâ

---- "Move Your Mind" by: "Matt Mays & El Torpedo" http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Mays

"Synthesis:"

Their email ends with "We look forward to hearing from you soon."

Well, here's their chance to, for real.

Like I said, they're asking me to help them build an even better site.

The problem with websites are two fold.

First is that people don't like to read, may have trouble with reading, may read bring too much of their own experiences, or too little of their own experiences, to the information that's on the page. For a lot of reasons, MSers just won't stumble onto the site.

Second is that it actually takes a great deal of skill to express what you want.

I read an enormous amount, and I write everyday, day in, day out, week in, week out.

Its all I do anymore; its all I "can" still do anymore.

I live (and I die a little everyday,) by the old  saw: "You may have thought your understood what you heard, but I don't think you realize that what said was not what I meant."

Writing something is damnably hard.

I am sticking to biographic and non-fiction because there's touchstones that I can feel as I stumble about, finding my way around in the dark here.

Part of the second problem is that most people who created the language were themselves healthy, or in denial.

This leads to situations like David Paterson, the blind governor of New York state, telling colleagues that he'll "see" them later.

It should be obvious to all and sundry that he'll do no such thing since he blind.

Language is clearly no help in "speaking truth to power."(What ever that is supposed to mean.)

There are a bunch of traps and pitfalls like this.

Then there is the fact that written English is entirely devoid of diacritical marks.

This leads to "tomayto", "Tomahto" situation in that nobody ever knows what the vowels are supposed to sound like, never mind colloquial usage and regional and multinational accents.

I include the entire written text of every episode along with the spoken word so that people can get my meaning despite the differences in pronunciation.

But straight ol' text doesn't get across any emphasis.

There are already many more shades of meaning which can be communicated without any need for visual explanation but just from my intonation.

---- "IF IT MOVES - IT AINT SAFE" by: "MADHOUSE" http://www.myspace.com/madhousedetroit

"Conclusion:"

moveoverms.org have sent me a email asking me to help them build an even better site.

Here's an idea, how about podcasting to your membership?

----

I just read something in the New York Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/15speech.html?ref=technology ] that makes me despair for anyone living in this vast, stupid wasteland, controlled as it is by people who have for-profit rules to "prevent" things from happening with ruthless denial of access to health.

I have become convinced that health-don't-care is killing America as surely as disease is decimating its citizens.

Now I have to get the heck out if this country before *I* get sick.

I really don't expect to finish the decade in the 'States.

President Obama is a mighty good man but the safety net you have here in the 'States just catches you once you've already been made destitute by whatever got you.

I don't intend to live out the declining years of a vastly shortened life as a pauper.

Its tough enough being healthy in this country. I don't intend to try it being sick.

At some point soon, the podcasts will definitely be originating from MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada.

The health care system in Canada is beckoning (as opposed to the health-don't-care system here South of the border.)

Think of it as a reverse brain drain.

---- "Move" by: "Jen Elliott" http://www.citycanyons.com/jenElliott/index.html

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:
 
"Move It On Over"
  by: "Hank Williams'"
 
Song list:
 
"I Gotta Move On"
 by: "Andre Bisson"
 http://www.andrebisson.ca/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"Move On"
 by: "Wes Jeans"
 http://www.myspace.com/wesjeans
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"
 
"Move On"
 by: "Robb McMahan"
 http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"Move Your Mind"
 by: "Matt Mays & El Torpedo"
 http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Mays
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"IF IT MOVES - IT AINT SAFE"
 by: "MADHOUSE"
 http://www.musicalley.com/music/artists/bandphotos/853744266_m.jpg
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"Move"
 by: "Jen Elliott"
 http://www.citycanyons.com/jenElliott/index.html
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com


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Photo Credits:

 All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

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Books:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


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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

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You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
]]> podcasts Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:55:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=528306# Charles-A. Rovira No wspc_TheDisabilityShow 0012 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=526154#
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Medical Information : About Peripheral Neuropathy
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Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

This show is "not" any kind of a medical show /podcast.

It is by and for the disabled, and if we can help reach across the chasm of questions and indifference to the other side of the rainbow of ability ... well and good.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disabilities.

The path to disability is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

Intro

This has been an interesting week capping off a very interesting summer.

It was full of discoveries.

Like I discovered I could write/assemble a book in a week, spend a month revising it and it could be out for sale before school started.

If you'd like to help me out and get a nice book to read for your trouble, you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ https://www.lulu.com/commerce/index.php?fBuyContent=7503026 ]

Another discovery was "Peripheral Neuropathy".

---- "Isnt It Enough To Make You Nervous" by: "Trev Gibb" http://www.myspace.com/trevgibb

I am alway amazed at how reluctant some people are to talk about their disease (after all its not as if they asked for the crap to happen to them. There's no shame involved.)

But you always find one who is a fount of knowledge and inspiration and that make it all worthwhile.

This episode features something about "Peripheral Neuropathy" written by "Joe Bartoszek" for "The Disability Resource Exchange" group on "Peripheral Neuropathy". [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/group/peripheralneuropathy ]

The Disability Resource Exchange [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ] is a website started and run by "Rudy Sims".

In case you're wondering, I am a member.

---- "Nervous!? again?" by: "The Reel Banditos" http://www.reelbanditos.com/

Now I'll read Joe's words...

These are my symptoms. It all started about 10 years ago (I'm 59) with slight tingling in my feet.

I was pretty active...running 5 miles 3X a week, scuba diving and surfing.

At first I kinda shrugged it off. Then I noticed that when I was surfing I wasn't able to feel the board and my wipeouts were becoming frequent...there went my surfing days.

I then went to 3 different Podiatrists with no good explanation, finally one Dr recommended that I see a Neurologist.

This had been going on for several years and the tingling now became numbness with dull aching and the tingling was moving about 1/2 up my calves.

Well the Neurologist was reviewing my history and came to the part, occupation. At that time I was an engineer at the Cape working on the Space Shuttle (retired now).

His first question was: Do work at the Cape? (Yes). Have you been around rocket propellant? (Yes)....Hydrazine? (Yes). He then told me he had about 50 patients that had been exposed with the same symptoms!

(I then discovered that chemical exposure could cause Neuropathy(NP). Exploring around on the internet I found people working around fertilizers could develop NP.)

Back to me....

The Dr then did nerve conductivity tests to confirm the nerve damage, prescribed Neurotin for the aching and told that I was progressive, would not improve.

Then we set up a follow up appointment a year later. Well during that time I noticed that if I cricked my neck a certain way I would get electric shocks running down my legs.

I brought this to the Dr's attention as a "GeeWiz" experience. He immediately scheduled me for an MRI of my neck. Results were rather disturbing and he then scheduled me to see a neurosurgeon.

The surgeon wanted to operate ASAP on my neck, fusing 3 or 4 vertebrate, inserting rods and screws. I refused!

That didn't make him real happy. Warned me that if I injured mt neck, I could be a quad.

To make matters worse he told me to stop scuba diving immediately....Scuba is my life!!!

Well that four years ago and 500 dives later and I'm still not a quad...however the disease has progressed with tingling above my knees, my feet completely paralyzed.

I must use hand crutches and AFO braces to walk. My walking distance is very limited even with the crutches and I most resort to my wheelchair for any distance (shopping etc)....

But I'm still diving and teaching.

---- "Making Me Nervous" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

More of Joe's words...

Symptoms are related to the type of affected nerve and may be seen over a period of days, weeks, or years.

Muscle weakness is the most common symptom of motor nerve damage.

Other symptoms may include painful cramps and fasciculations (uncontrolled muscle twitching visible under the skin), muscle loss, bone degeneration, and changes in the skin, hair, and nails.

These more general degenerative changes also can result from sensory or autonomic nerve fiber loss.

Sensory nerve damage causes a more complex range of symptoms because sensory nerves have a wider, more highly specialized range of functions.

Larger sensory fibers enclosed in myelin (a fatty protein that coats and insulates many nerves) register vibration, light touch, and position sense.

Damage to large sensory fibers lessens the ability to feel vibrations and touch, resulting in a general sense of numbness, especially in the hands and feet.

People may feel as if they are wearing gloves and stockings even when they are not. Many patients cannot recognize by touch alone the shapes of small objects or distinguish between different shapes.

This damage to sensory fibers may contribute to the loss of reflexes (as can motor nerve damage).

Loss of position sense often makes people unable to coordinate complex movements like walking or fastening buttons, or to maintain their balance when their eyes are shut.

Neuropathic pain is difficult to control and can seriously affect emotional well-being and overall quality of life.

Neuropathic pain is often worse at night, seriously disrupting sleep and adding to the emotional burden of sensory nerve damage.

Smaller sensory fibers without myelin sheaths transmit pain and temperature sensations.

Damage to these fibers can interfere with the ability to feel pain or changes in temperature. People may fail to sense that they have been injured from a cut or that a wound is becoming infected.

Others may not detect pains that warn of impending heart attack or other acute conditions. (Loss of pain sensation is a particularly serious problem for people with diabetes, contributing to the high rate of lower limb amputations among this population.) Pain receptors in the skin can also become oversensitized, so that people may feel severe pain (allodynia) from stimuli that are normally painless (for example, some may experience pain from bed sheets draped lightly over the body).

Symptoms of autonomic nerve damage are diverse and depend upon which organs or glands are affected. Autonomic nerve dysfunction can become life threatening and may require emergency medical care in cases when breathing becomes impaired or when the heart begins beating irregularly.

Common symptoms of autonomic nerve damage include an inability to sweat normally, which may lead to heat intolerance; a loss of bladder control, which may cause infection or incontinence; and an inability to control muscles that expand or contract blood vessels to maintain safe blood pressure levels.

A loss of control over blood pressure can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, or even fainting when a person moves suddenly from a seated to a standing position (a condition known as postural or orthostatic hypotension).

Gastrointestinal symptoms frequently accompany autonomic neuropathy. Nerves controlling intestinal muscle contractions often malfunction, leading to diarrhea, constipation, or incontinence. Many people also have problems eating or swallowing if certain autonomic nerves are affected.

---- "central nervous piston" by: "el ten eleven" http://elteneleven.com/

Well, that was most elucidating. I'd like to thank Joe for explaining about neuropathy.

Something else I knew nothing about.

But now I DO.

That's what counts.

By the way, I have become a radio producer in my, uh, copious spare time; what with being unemployed and all. GRRRR!!!

My marketing director ideas for WSPC have taken root.

---- "Nervous" by: "Wil Deynes" http://www.myspace.com/wildeynes

Outro

The show notes, including the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

This show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter, or to accompany the music.

----

YouTube video(s):

Medical Information : About Peripheral Neuropathy
The music this time was:

"Isnt It Enough To Make You Nervous"
 by: "Trev Gibb"
 http://www.myspace.com/trevgibb
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Nervous!? again?"
 by: "The Reel Banditos"
 http://www.reelbanditos.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/

"central nervous piston"
 by: "el ten eleven"
 http://elteneleven.com/
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/

"Nervous"
 by: "Wil Deynes"
 http://www.myspace.com/wildeynes
 album: "none"
 via: http://music.podshow.com/]]> podcasts Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:14:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=526154# Charles-A. Rovira No spc_wspc_ThymeWarp_0044 http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=524461#
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This is episode 44

As promised, I've been converting my 400 or so albums from vinyl to CDs, to MP3s, so you're going to reap the benefits of my vastly expanded iTunes catalog.

Before I launch headlong into some Jazz, (the sweet sounds of SatchMo' blowin' his horn are calling to me sumtin' fierce,) I'd like to make some observations about my media studies classes.

---- vvvv The Media Squat vvvv ----

The media are about to change for the better as Marshall McLuhan's dream of a global village gets going, in ways he never lived long enough to get more than a glimpse of.

In keeping with Douglas Rushkoff's theme of economic empowerment from the bottom up, on WFMU (my other job, as it were,) since the top doesn't seem to know which way the light shines, (like, from outside its colon,) I would like to tell you abut some things I have noticed about the media.

One management axiom holds that "perfect is the enemy of 'good enough'" and at some point "you have to shoot the engineers and ship the damn product."

But there is another axiom which ad supported media ignored until it was too late, "'Better' is death to the 'Status Quo'"

This has "no" application for "Mom-and-Pop" outfits except that it will give them the tools to compete with the former "Big Boys".

Lets take what is laughingly referred to as food by the average American.

How many pizzerias are there across the United States?

Like a hundred thousand.

How many mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous pizza, and I use the term very loosely here, processing corporations are there?

Likely there are fewer than you've got fingers, even if we hack off your thumbs with a Bowie knifeâ

You can repeat the question for every kind of food to be found around the planet. Chinese, Mexican, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Polish, English (though to be honest I have never eaten a burger as badly prepared as I had once at a Wimpy's. Country ale was a great discovery, but you can take most of England's grub and toss it somewhere deep, dark and anoxic. It sucked.)

You will probably find that its the same handful of mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations who are trying to squeeze every fraction of a penny until Lincoln [bleeps].

(No wonder everything tastes like [bleep], and its the same [bleep] from Portsmouth Maine to Port Angeles, Washington and from Tampa, Florida to just north of Tijuana, Mexico.

Its utterly, unrelievedly, unpalatably, monotonously, toxically consistent across all time zones and from sodden melting pole to pole.

[The FDA is so screwing with you, big time.

They make horrible tasting, disease-friendly rules about the F;

they make laughably unsafe rules about the D,

because they're completely owned by the corporations who are having entirely too much fun giving it to you up the A.])

On the internet though, Mon-N-Pop and mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations are both equal if their ads are good enough. (And that is were the money will lie. The demand for content production is about to sky-rocket. The delivery wont cost any more than a phone call. )

This has some wide ranging implication, (in that, the guy in the bread line next to you may have been working for ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN,  The Boston Daily Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, or any of the dozens of other media outlets trying to get by on ad revenue, but you'll at least have some marketable skill â while they won't! )

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This has some severe consequences for television. The ad supported nature of the media is disappearing as fast as their old customers got onto the internet.

PBS, NPR, PRI and an alphabet soup of providers are already on the internet.

And why not?

With the mass media, the joke went, you knew you knew you were wasting half of your advertising money, if only you could know which half..

The lack of numbers of the mega-conglomo-giganto-humongous corporations will become apparent when their board members ask why they're still wasting share-holders' money.

Then, one after another, ad supported mass media will simply "cease to exist."

This won't just be television (They just went digital and now it'll have been pointless.)

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The slide into oblivion by the newspapers and magazines is well documented by the "Newspaper Death Watch" types of sites [ http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/ ]  on the web.

The only ones that are even capable of hanging on are the ones who have been able to make the switch to hyper-localized news.

Even then. Google is handing them their heads on a dirty hubcap.

Magazines are going down in flames in a spiral next to them.

Several have crashed and burned already.

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So what happens to movies then?

It won't be much fun down at the multiplex without the ads. (Not for you, the audience, since you're just the poor "schmucks" who wait patiently for the feature to start and don't give any more of a crap about the rest of it than you did before, but the retailers who are so desperate that they would advertise at a multiplex are going to run out of money.)

As even those people switch to the web, you'll be able to watch theaters get dowdier, get dirtier, and eventually, get shuttered.

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Books are in less trouble, but their production and delivery is about to become a whole lot more on demand.

Kiss those tiny advances goodbye.

Then again, kiss those remaindered copies we used to discover walking through the stacks and the back-rooms goodbye too.

Serendipitous discovery done by browsing requires the waste of scarce resources.

Its going to be rough in the malls when Barnes and Nobles, Borders, the rapidly vanishing Walden Books, and the few other chains try to compete head to head with Amazon.

Competing head-to-head means going on the web, (its a lot cheaper than retail space,) doing books on demand, (its a lot cheaper than throwing out books as remainders, a lot cheaper than doing the writer's dance of getting an advance and then finding it spread to the next book and the next book and the â you get the idea.)

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The various associations wont be able to do a thing about it.

The MPAA and the RIAA have already feasted on their own audience. Here's a clue guys, lawsuits don't get you repeat customers

These are industries built, not on talent but on mediocrity and "churn."

You burn us, you burn yourself worse.

We have something you need like the air we breathe: money.

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This is a cautionary tale for any of the people currently slaving in the salt mines of ad-supported media.

Where have their customers gone? (Not the audience/readership, but their customers. The audiences/readership are just entries on the liability side of the ledger.)

Where have they gone indeed?

To the internet where its cheap, where they know where every cent of their advertising dollar is going because they're able to run their advertisements strictly on-demand, where they can take orders, track orders, tracks shipments, track customers, take suggestions and quietly quash complaints.

The bottom up meaning for the Media Squat is that the top-paying client list of elite content producers is vanishing, but this heralds lots "Mom-and-Pop" opportunities.

When the carnage is over the only ones who will be feeling bad are the current media oligarchies.

The current ad and content producers will still be around and thriving.

There'll be more of them and they'll have a lot more work.

---

As we look back over the century of pondering on what was really happening to the media,
 through the lens of media studies,
 from the groping towards a theory of media effects,
 through Leni Riefenstahl and Nazi party propaganda,
 to McLuhan's "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" and "The Mechanical Bride",
all of these explorations were doomed to incompleteness because they were all 1:N, meaning they were assuming that there was a fundamental difference between media producer and media consumer.

They were all wrong, only examining of one side of the equation which never seemed to be able to resolve itself into anything fundamental or true.

It couldn't of course.

For the first time, the internet is capable of going beyond the merest renting of megaphones by the greedy to the global village idiots so that they can hawk their schlock.

It enables true N:M connection between all people.

It subsumes the old 1:N communication model, which is just an existential case of N:M, in that for the first time, the consumers and the producers are communicating on the same level, through the same asynchronous, packet-switched network and they are able to carry on conversations.

[with apologies to "Suzanne Vega" for misusing her song "Blood Makes Noise",]

This is so much richer a form of communication than standing at the mouth of "a windy tunnel shouting through the roar and I'd like to give the information you're asking for" as it enables us to stop and think, rather than just react to the wrong clues and cues.

---- ^^^^ The Media Squat ^^^^ ----
"

Now, adelante la musica.

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This episode featured the following music:

"Alone At Last" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Butter and Egg Man" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Struttin' with Some Barbecue" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"West End Blues" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Symphonic Raps" by: "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Basin Street Blues" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"When You're Smiling" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"After You're Gone" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Chinatown My Chinatown" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"All of Me" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"Medley of Armstrong Hits" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira

"That's My Home" by "Louis Armstrong" here on WSPC's ThymeWarp with your host Charles Rovira


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The show notes, incuding the complete text of this episode, and any and all links to the artists featured, are on a server ... somewhere.

And this show is also being podcast in m4a format, which means that it you use a compatible player, like iTunes, you get the content divided up into chapters with images and "hot links" to the the web, on the topic of the chapter or to accompany the music.

]]> podcasts Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:11:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=524461# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0387 MS Together http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=523325#
YouTube videos:

"Together" by: "EXILE"
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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 had some from Katie Pleiss of the "MSTogether" [ http://mstogether.wordpress.com/ ] word press blog.

I am in fact delighted to be of service to her, but wryly so because of the sentence in her email to me with reads "except maybe your advice could be focused more towards young adults with MS".

I don't think it was aimed at me personally but there it is.

I've thrived in spite of and survived with, MS long enough to become an author of "inspirational messages" for young people with this damnable disease.

Who'd've thunk it?

---- "Make This Together" by: "The Ram Boola Black" http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject

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"

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This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Together" by: "Dona Oxford (pronounced DOH-NYA)" http://www.donaoxford.com/
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

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The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

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The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

I wish I could send you somewhere to buy it, but sadly Lulu.co are a nonexistent bunch of lying sacks of [expletive deleted].

I'm currently shopping around for a more responsive service (ha!) than Lulu.com.

Quite frankly, people have started <so-and-so sucks> websites for less irritatation.

I wonder if anyone works there at all because, I have brought up a problem with their StoreFront, namely its BUSTED, since August 19, 2009, which has so far gotten neither discernible solution, nor resolution.

All I've ever got from them is auto-responder emails. NOBODY WORKS THERE!

Sandra P. is NOT a person. Sandra is P-ing on me and my complaint.

I want the money back that I shelled out to them for the ISBNs because they're useless.

I can't sell the book at all because the storefront is shuttered and hidden in gray...

If you were thinking of writing a book, look anywhere else.

For the service they provide, I'm actually thinking I'd be better off sending you to your nearest FedEx/Kinko's to pick up a freshly printed and bound copy of the PDFs of the text and cover. If you want they can even ship it to you via FedEx.

In the meantime, I had book tours and other promotion things planned that I've got to undo.

I'll keep you posted.

---- "Still Together" by: "The Dangling Success" http://www.danglingsuccess.com/

"Thesis:"

Katie Pleiss wrote me such a nice email that I suddenly find myself in the distinctly uncomfortable of serving as a role model or as an inspiration to some people.

Well â Lets look at it this way, you could do worse than following in my footsteps.

---- "Held Together" by: "Rod Kim" http://www.rodkimrocks.com/

"Synthesis:"

My first attack happened when I was sixteen.

Unfortunately it was over too quickly and was mild enough that, apart from sending my handwriting to "Hell in a Hand-basket"Ââ it was more of a minor inconvenience and quickly glossed over.

I had my hormones to deal with at the time and they were much more distracting, as was the fact that that was the time I had a massive growth spurt, which left me a foot taller, a hundred pounds heavier and, because I wan't interested in getting picked on by girls anymore, it was "all muscle"â

My second attack was severe (it tried to freakin' kill me,) and I spent weeks in the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

I used the time in the neuroICU in the only way left to me, I thought deeply and at length about computers, object-oriented programming, system design, software implementation and when emerged from the hospital, I "grokked" it.
 I didn't just understand it, in the words of Robert A Heinlein [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_strange_land ] I "grokked" it.

Then I spent a year rebuilding my body, my muscles and my nervous system until I had better physical control over my body than most people dream of.

----

"Anybody who tries to give me an ideological argument against single payer health care will find himself called a murderer, a torturer, an Alqeda Operative, an ideologue, an effete intellectual and whatever other buttons I can push because Canada's single payer health care system saved my life and it had saved my father's life years before.

The doctors are for it now, the hospitals are for it now, patient organizations are for it now.

The only ones left complaining are ignorant morons.
 
You're scared that some bureaucrat is going to make your health decisions?

Which ones?

The bureaucrats in Washington who don't have an axe to grind, just anonymous payments to process, or the ones at the HMO whose year-end bonuses depends on how much costs they can cut, and guess what? "Your cancer treatment is very costly."

As for the Ayn Randian principle that we can all stand alone an independent, I say, remember what kinds of people use expressions like "divide and conquer," war mongering barbarians!

It called civics, people, part of being civilized is that we take care of our people, not kick their bodies to the curve when they stumble or when they get sick.

If being a decent human being is un-American, then you can call me that.

Some things the rest of the world is right about.

The only countries left where there is no health care are Third World Hell-holes, like Myanmar, and the United States.

[climbs down from soap box.]

----

That symptom-free state of affairs lasted until 1997 when I had a third attack which left me walking with a cane, slowly.

The wonder of modern medicine is at it does you no good if you just wonder about what the Hell just happened to you.

Since then I have started this podcast, done almost 400 shows, gone back to College, taken media studies to deepen my understanding of
â where the media corporations were,
â what happened to who and how, and
â how to position myself and MSB Podast to help MSers.

I want to help "all" handicapped people by giving us a voice which is never heard in the media.

---- "When I Get My Shit Together" by: "Noam Weinstein" http://enoam.com/

"Conclusion:"

So that's my story, a bit of it anyway.

The bit where I've used podcasting to deal with my MS instead of burying it in the past.

The burial has cost me dearly because I was an idiot, living in denial.

I will never dance again; I "loved to dance."

I will never play guitar again; I "loved to play guitar."

And I will never go on hikes or walk-abouts again; I "loved" to walk.

Don't be idiots, deal with the situation and you will probably be okay.

---- "Everyones In This Together" by: "Love = Action" http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Together" by: "EXILE" proving that Boy Bands are truly an international phenomenon.

I hear shades of the 80s and the nineties in that video.

Strangely enough, the quality of the vocals is good enough to hold my interest despite the fact that I don't speak a word of Japanese.

The video production is so 2000 "Lets show some kid bouncing around as if the were doing some kind of Kung-Fu, skate-boarding rap," despite the face that the beat is vintage Michael Jackson.

Song list:

"Make This Together"
 by: "The Ram Boola Black"
 http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Together"
 by: "Dona Oxford (pronounced DOH-NYA)"
 http://www.donaoxford.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"
 
"Still Together"
 by: "The Dangling Success"
 http://www.danglingsuccess.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"Held Together"
 by: "Rod Kim"
 http://www.rodkimrocks.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"When I Get My Shit Together"
 by: "Noam Weinstein"
 http://enoam.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com
 
"Everyones In This Together"
 by: "Love = Action"
 http://www.myspace.com/loveequalsaction
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 7 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=523325# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0386 High gene, low gene, green gene, blue gene, red gene, dead gene. http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=520667#
YouTube videos:

The Genetic Conspiracy 1 of 3 about Monsanto
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The Genetic Conspiracy 2 of 3 about Monsanto
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The Genetic Conspiracy 3 of 3 about Monsanto
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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 sneaking this one in under the radar of talking about personal cleanliness, so here goes.

It is very important and it can be extremely difficult for people with poor coordination to brush their teeth, wash themselves thoroughly and take care of their appearance too.

[ http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1468169771061983546PDHtiw ] I know MSers would all like to have our hygiene taken care of by sitting in a tub of cool water and letting little rasps dispose of the mess we tend to leave behind, and on our behind.

"Reach around" means something different to an MSer.

"Kermit the Frog" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog ] held that "Its not easy being green", but it can also be tough sporting various hues and shades of pinks, yellows or browns.

But I have another topic to cover this episode so you can wait for the thesis, synthesis and conclusion where I will get to it.

And the synthesis and conclusion may be played on WFMU's "The Media squat" of on the last show of August.

Sorry but some things take precedence.

---- "Meat Market" by: "Sunspot" http://www.sunspotmusic.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Sausage Meat" by: "Reggie s Experience" http://www.reggiesexperience.com/
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

----

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

And I've stopped apologizing about the price.

It is what it is and it costs what it costs.

If its not what you want to pay, then its not.

The podcasts are free and if you are getting them through iTunes you can even hang on to them and have all of the links ... forever.

If you want to find out what I'm all about, why I'm doing it and how, you'll pay the price because it'll be worth it to you.

If its not, then you don't pay. Simple enough...

You're already part of an exclusive club, an exclusive tribe.

You're an MSer.

Now go out and spread the word at "your" gathering place.

If "you" don't want to know, maybe someone you know "does" want to know the who, what where, when, why and the how behind niche market communication and MSBPodcast.

Talk with people near you because we're all in some niche of other.

Near might just be a figure of speech because some of the people who I am near, I'll never get to travel to to get some "face time".

That shows the true power of the internet.

---- "Meat Eater" by: "Fang Island" http://myspace.com/fangisland

"Thesis:"

Hygiene is also internal.

Has anyone noticed that their MS symptoms might seem worse after a heavy meal? (It used to be that I felt lousy, and still hungry, after eating a meal.)

After my last attack, my wife and I started paying more attention to what we ate, and not only did I stop feeling like logy crap after eating, but so did she.

Its not just MSers but "everybody."

---- "Brain Food" by: "David Emeny" http://www.davidemeny.com/

"Synthesis:"

vvvv CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

The modern industrial processing of food, quite apart from the use of hydrogenated oil, too much salt to make up for the fact that they taste of nothing, aspertame, a witches cauldron of things with hard to pronounce names, like sodium benzoate, mono and di-glycerides, and corn product derivatives, which aren't food in the first place, results in low nutrition products never before seen in nature.

To improve the American diet all they would have to do is stop the corn subsidies.

All of these products would be revealed as costlier processes to produce food substitutes, not food, but food substitutes.

We have corn products in virtually everything.

We eat corn fed beef, chickens, fish and virtually all other food stock, that are so immunocompromised and raised in such unsanitary condition that they are injected with a constant stream of increasingly ineffective antibiotics.

We eat genetically modified crops and we eat more and more of them because we are still hungry after consuming them. We consume more and more sheer bulk but get less and less nutrition.

We chow down on "Round Up ready" plants with so-called 'terminator technology' that don't reproduce from one season to the next, because they're no longer able to. They're programmed to commit suicide after one season by producing only mules. Their seeds are sterile.

Thousands, thousands, of dirt poor farmers in India, who had taken out loans and bought what they thought were good seeds, committed suicide the following year when the seeds they had collected and reserved for the next year failed to germinate. [ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html ]

The G.M. crops failed twice, once by still being liked by the local pests and again by being mules.

The loans were still due and the farmers didn't have "bupkiss" to pay them with.

They "drank" the insecticides that they should and would have been spraying on their crops if they hadn't listened to bull that the sales critters  were spewing, because they only saw the sides of the holes they had dug for themselves and couldn't see a ray of hope.

This was a deliberate act of deception by the makers of genetically modified crops.

"Buy our magic seeds and they'll be pest resistant" they said..

They weren't.

Indian bugs weren't on the list of "tested for" pests.

"Hey one bug's pretty much like any other, right?"

Wrong...

The North American pests have learned that the stuff tastes like crap and just leave you feeling empty inside, so they have moved on to other food supplies.

The Indian pests hadn't seen the "Round Up Ready" ads I guess and they were still ignorant.

The seeds just tasted new.

The worst part of this is that these accountants without souls, are willfully, knowingly condemning their own children to a future of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and almost certain servitude simply because they can justify it as "Well maybe, but I have to work."

When the work you do puts thousands of people miserably and prematurely in the ground every year and billions of pounds of undigestible lard on the waists of sheeple, those people you treat like sheep, maybe you should take up a different career.

Someday, you will find out, to your horror, that sometimes "the sheep look up" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up ] and their revenge is as unfeeling, uncaring and exterminative as you were, calculating and wondering how long you thought you could get away with it.

I have an old family friend who "had" diabetes, high blood pressure and all sorts of ailments until she was laid off and decided she couldn't afford processed foods anymore.

Now her diabetes in gone, her blood pressure is normal and she no longer has strange ailments.

She is shedding the pounds of stuff that her body couldn't digest, slowly but she is losing the weight.

Coincidence, I don't think so.

She is full of energy, is feeling good and is sort of sleeping better. (Hey, she lives in Brooklyn, its noisy.)

She's found another job, but she's keeping the change in her diet.

I'm in an activist mood: Lets hear
---- "Foie Gras Violent Food" by: "Maria Daine" http://www.maria-daines.com/

"Conclusion:"

Try eating some organic food for a few weeks and see if it helps you control the food cravings, the eating and eating and still not feeling fed, the bingeing on processed food.

Slap those "Twinkies" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie ] out of your child's hands.

Slap those chips and those corn-syrup sweetened soft-drinks out of there too.

You know your child isn'l supposed to look like that, with those incredibly fat legs, chafing at every labored step, supporting that barrel of lard torso.

Humans weren't meant to look like over stuffed sausage casings, bursting with sweat at every exertion.

"Fat Albert" used to be a joke thought up by "Bill Cosby".

He was a caricature of a child, not a role model to be emulated.

Bill Cosby is still alive, for Christ's sake. But his audiences' children aren't.

A couple of generation of children have been, and are still. chewing their way into an early grave; condemning themselves into a life of struggle with their food, not realizing that that food had become their enemy by the very processes used to get it out the ground, into the feed of the animals, into the processing plants, and ultimately into their mouthes; gathering poisons, becoming more laden with toxins at every step.

The world of their own making, in which North Americans exist, because I can't and won't call this living, is laden with poisons, from the dioxins in their mother's breast milk to the toxic residue of the varnish used on their coffins.

I remember a cartoon appearing in "Mad Magazine", or maybe it was in "Playboy", where a bunch of marketing exec's were sitting at a conference table, smoking cigarettes, contemplating a box of kid's cereal and asking "What the heck? Why don't we just make it addictive?"

I'm worried that that joke was actually played on us, by the same kind of people who were evil enough to say that "we'd never buy collapsable steering columns on our cars because it would make them cost a couple hundred bucks more."

"Unsafe At Any Speed" [ http://www.amazon.com/Unsafe-Any-Speed-Ralph-Nader/dp/1561290505 ] by Ralph Nader revealed the math that said that the car companies could afford to pay for the burials of a certain amount of people who died with steering columns sticking into their chests.

Closer to agriculture, look no further than the Tobacco industry [ http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=6718394 ] whose entire production goes up in smoke, polluting on the way and filling graves with loved ones and making orphans of tens of thousands of people every year.

Draw you own conclusions.

Are businesses run by the worthless actuarial mentalities who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, inherently evil, or do you fantasize that some of these sub-human, semi-simian wretches might be salvaged, but only if the cost-benefit analysis shows a protracted positive curve?

I feel the same way about the weight-loss industry as Susan Powter, because these fat farming people would be out of business if their customers were able to climb down off of the consumer treadmill and eat real food, instead of the hydrogenated starch hydrosylate crap, [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenated_starch_hydrosylate ] and polysaccharide [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysaccharide ] chemically derived glop.

Do your meals leave you with a bad taste in your mouth and pounds of fat that just stay in your ass?

Then "Stop Eating Crap!"

How about a high colonic that starts in your head?

Change your minds about the beneficence of business people and get a clue as to the "Banality of evil". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil ]

These people will shoot you, point blank in the face, and wonder "What's wrong with you? Why wont you talk to me?"

^^^^ CUT HERE FOR the segment for
"The Media Squat" With "Douglas Rushkoff"
on WFMU ----

---- "Worm food" by: "Ruth Theodore" http://www.ruththeodore.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"The Genetic Conspiracy" parts 1, 2 & 3

When did this country start having an epidemic of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes?

Can you say "Since Monsanto started screwing around with the seeds we use for growing our food?"

Can you say: "Since they started selling genetically modified, "Round-Up Ready" seeds that commit "sepuku" after one growing season?"

Before then, you had to be a seriously delusional cow killing carnivore-wanna-be to get fat enough to ever contract gout.

Wake the hell up and stop digging your graves with your teeth.

Song list:

"Meat Market"
 by: "Sunspot"
 http://www.sunspotmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Sausage Meat"
 by:  "Reggie s Experience"
 http://www.reggiesexperience.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Meat Eater"
 by: "Fang Island"
 http://myspace.com/fangisland
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Brain Food"
 by: "David Emeny"
 http://www.davidemeny.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Foie Gras Violent Food"
 by: "Maria Daine"
 http://www.maria-daines.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Worm food"
 by: "Ruth Theodore"
 http://www.ruththeodore.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=520667# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0385 The Glass is Half Full http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=518025#
YouTube videos:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
..

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...

Holy smokes, promotion is a face time intensive business. I've got meetings and phone calls scheduled from here to eternity.

I'm having some problems with setting/changing the pricing on the books.

We'll figure something out.

Until then, at $6.25 the ebook is definitely acceptably priced.

The paperback "should" be around $12.95+S&H. Its $19.36.+S&H I know I'm a charity case, but nobody's going to go for it at that price.

I can only hope that book stores are able to buy the book wholesale for about $9.80 and that the book retailer is able to buy enough to sell it for about $12.95. Alright, maybe I don't make any money but at least it out there.

The hardcover "should" be around $25.+S&H. Its $32.10+S&H.

Luckily, the hardcover is a lot better looking. But its still not going to sell unless its competitively priced.

Dang, they look pretty good, but not that good. Somebody would have to really like me and, lets be honest here, I'm not that likable.

I know that there are other authors out there selling their books through Lulu for a lot cheaper than those prices.

Well, I learned a lesson.

You have to get in touch with a real live human being "first". No human, no desire to do business with you.

The options the systems opens to you won't necessarily get you where you want to go and they won't stop you for getting somewhere you didn't want to go.

I'll shop around for somebody else to publish my next book about "The Disability Show."

That one will probably appeal to 15% of the population instead of .0833%. That's a market with almost 200 times the number of people.

I want it to be affordable by handicapped people.

---- "Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington" by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording" http://myspace.com/1918themusical

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"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Stained Glass Hammers" by: "3jane" http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have "three" sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up on the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the b oulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Glass Elevator" by: "The Coloured Lights" http://www.thecolouredlights.com/

"Thesis:"

This week, "the glass is half-full" and my plate is definitely full.

I'm hunting down school books (Finally! The shipment came into the book store,) paper and pens which I no longer have the coordination to use legibly, a new power converter for my old PowerBook G4 (its an old Mac but it was built like a tank,) and starting to ramp up for my shows for WSPC.

Like a boy scout, I believe in "being prepared."

---- "Empty Glass" by: "Manny" http://sideshowmanny.com/

"Synthesis:"

Preparation is what makes the difference between success and failure in everything in life.

Failing to plan is planning to fail, at anything and everything.

Life hits you with things from all sides and its never what you expect.

As we are definitely aware, life consists of the crap that happens to you while you were waiting for something else.

In the case of this show's intended audience, that crap was MS.

Now I've talked about my cane, which is how I manage to get around and its about all I use. The rest of me is relatively unaffected.

My sensory nerves are blessedly not giving me any real, or "phantom" pain.

My effector nerves aren't too shaky with spasticity either, (though I occasionally suffer from a kind of "physical Tourettes" which makes picking up a glass or a cup a real bitch sometimes.)

I am just real slow to get moving and grooving. (I live my life like I was in a "AquaFit" class, walking around the bottom of a pool with the weight of the water resisting my every motion, but without the cooling effect of a pool. [As you can imagine, that makes getting around in the summertime heat and sunshine a really sweaty bit of work.])

Man, I could use a heat vest or  some of that hurricane that's hanging 'round offshore just south of here.

Well, I've done enough editorializing, (or is that pontificating?), for one day.

---- "Under The Glass" by: "The Rhodes" http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes

Noise or the utter absence of noise (like living in the neurological equivalent of an anechoic chamber,) can really mess you up, disorient you and in general make you a miserable person.

Well, at least, my glasses aren't too thick.

---- "(My Glasses Are) Too Thick" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks" http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/

"Conclusion:"

Its not so much a question of planning as it is one of readiness. You should be in a position to recover quickly when life swings that shovel at your face.

With apologies to the "Firesign Theatre" for providing me with the next meme, "When life slips you a mickey, you should be prepared to upend your life, head down the freeway of your choice to ..." Somewhere you didn't plan on being. Nobody does man."

Like Tom Lehrer sang: "Be prepared. That's a boy scout sacred creed."

---- "Be Prepared" by: "Tom Lehrer" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441

Outro

The next show will be on a topic dear to my heart and olfactory sense: "Personal Hygiene".

The one after that concerns some feed back and feed forward I recently received.

After that, I'll review (quite favorably,) "The Chaos Scenario" by "Bob Garfiel" of "On The Media" fame. [ http://thechaosscenario.net/blog/ ].

(And I'm going to find out how he published his book. At $13.95 its priced for success.)

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Geek NASA" by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"

Song list:

"Glass of Tea feat Dan Leeds, Erin Leigh Schmoyer, Victoria Lavington"
 by: "1918 A House Divided Original Cast Recording"
 http://myspace.com/1918themusical
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Stained Glass Hammers"
 by: "3jane"
 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3jane
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Glass Elevator"
 by: "The Coloured Lights"
 http://www.thecolouredlights.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Empty Glass"
 by: "Manny"
 http://sideshowmanny.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Under The Glass"
 by: "The Rhodes"
 http://www.myspace.com/therhodeseddierhodes
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"(My Glasses Are) Too Thick"
 by: "Rocket Propelled Geeks"
 http://www.rocketpropelledgeeks.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Be Prepared"
 by: "Tom Lehrer"
 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=305884605&s=143441
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=518025# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0384 School's Almost Here http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=515774#
YouTube videos:

"School's Out" by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

..

Alice Cooper Staples Commercial
..

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 too busy this week to reply to any feedback that's not related to my book.

I'm trying to do some promotion and its turning out to be quite a chore.

I may be coming to a book store in or near your town soon.

I'll be the exhausted George Carlin look-alike long-haired dude with a red cane sitting at a table at the back of the Borders or the Barnes & Nobles near you.

I'll post up the dates and the locations as I book them.

In the meantime, I am trying out the new schedule and stuff I thought was only going to happen next year I'm trying out today, Sunday, August 16, 2009.

This will be the new regular schedule for MSB's Podcast.

The WSPC Disability Show will be happening on  Mondays at 17:00 (5PM).

The WSPC ThymeWarp will be happening on Wednesday's at 17:00 (5PM).

---- "Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard" by: "Thin Acid Angel" http://www.thinacidangel.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Cigarette Schoolgirl" by: "Nino Tirez" http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg a couple of weeks ago.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The trade price, which Amazon would pay for ordering large quantities, goes down to about half of that but I'm practically eating my own shorts at that kind of ROI.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I really "need" the dough... :-}])  

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

Oh and thanks for asking JP.

The cover image was shot during the run of the "Christo and Jeanne-Claude" project called "The Gates" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates ] in Central Park, New York, on February 26th, 2005.

Yes, that is me, and that is my red cane.

It was cold that day which explains the black things on my hands. They're called winter gloves and, man, I needed them.

It wasn't very windy but the air was very damp and threatening with snow. That's the kind of weather that chills you to the bones.

I've been in Ottawa in sunny -40Â weather and it wasn't that cold.

---- "Schools Out" by: "Fire Underground" http://www.fireunderground.com/

"Thesis:"

I've been reading the book "Animal Spirits" by "George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller" (ISBN 978-0-691-14233-3 ) and its, uh, quite interesting.

There is a behavior which I haven't seen mentioned yet (it IS mentioned later in chapter 10, but I'm not there yet [okay, I have done a quick scan and the mention that I was hoping I would see ... I'm not seeing.])

Hmm... Could it be I made an original observation?

---- "Peaked in Highschool" by: "Jeff Mallon" http://www.jeffmallon.com/

"Synthesis:"

The savings rate in the United States is frankly pathetic and I think this may be another "animal spirit" as exemplified by "La Cigale" the "Grasshopper" in "Les Fables De LaFontaine" known to my Anglophone audience as "Aesop's Fables" [ http://aesopfables.com/ ]

There seems to be a natural "animus" that we humans tend to be profligate in good times and to crash and die along with our economies when times are lean, and right now, times are lean.

Almost every species does this, so we're hardly unique in this respect.

But we're supposed to be better at planning than an elk or a tiger or every other species out there (well "almost" every other species out there, insects have us beat. :-)

Millions of people are out of work and most of them are crashing right along with the economy.

With unwilling and unprepared for  unemployment over 10%, the toll on citizens of this country is truly savage and getting desperate.

After 9/11 I was one of the "Gold Card Homeless" and was able to buy some shelter while my home, across the street from the World Trade center, was unreachable and the air around there was unbreathable.

Unlike a lot of my neighbors, I paid for my shelter out of my savings because I "had" some.

When I was able to return to work, I did, but not before.

That's the luxury of having squirreled away some savings.

Granted they were just about exhausted by then, but I'd had some, instead of coming back too soon, being a head-case and suffering from PTSD.

That's what my savings bought me,  the time to work through it.

When most of my fellow workers who consult for the banking industry are wishing they could find employment flipping burgers, I am able to spend my time now going to school and bettering myself by returning to college while I am currently unemployed, because I managed my savings wisely the last time I *was* employed.

I wrote my book, and I will flog it, because I was able to write it and because I am able to do the promotion.

My savings gave me the option of doing so.

Unlike the guys out there at the end of their rope, thinking about suckin' on the business-end of a magnum, I "will" survive.

I will outlast this recession, and probably the next one too, because investors are idiots and  I don't see the FTC having the balls to bitch-slap the weak-minded vulture capitalists out there at any time soon.

The United States is NO place to be if you're "sans le sou", "without two cents to rub together."

But seriously, if buy the book and you'll keep me traveling to a book fair near you, (or should that read FAR from you. :-)

I'm already thinking about the next book on podcasting and the disabled and other minority groups.

---- "Residential School" by: "SOL 3" http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada

"Conclusion:"

I've been told that being unnaturally cheerful and optimistic is a symptom of MS.

But I keep going back to "La Cigalle et la Fourmie".

I'm no economist, (or is that behaviorist?) but it seems that the necessary instinct to thrift is exactly backward in humans and other mammals.

We spend freely when times are good and we "tighten up the money supply" when times are bad, when that is 180Â from the way we "should" be doing it.

The profligate way leads to cycles of glut and privation, booms and crashes.

The thrifty way leads to the smoothing out of the road.

The crashes of the 1890, the 1930s, the 1970s, the 2000s, the minor recessions in between and this current crisis all show the same pattern.

The triggers for the recessions-slash-depressions may all be different but the cause for the crashes are all the same, people don't save any money when they have it, to serve as a buffer when its not coming in.

I'm sorry but I 'm just a man who thinks that its not a good idea to let greedy children run with scissors, specially when the children have a demonstrated and well documented history of self-inflicted economic injuries to themselves and to everyone else with their irrational exuberance [  ] ...

We must enforce thrift, not just encourage it, so this kind of crap doesn't cover the landscape again, like feces spraying around from the back end of a hippopotamus, wagging its short, fat tail furiously to aid in ensuring its wide messy and smelly dispersal.

As it is, I'm only asking that my listeners buy my book, a real object, not a bunch of empty promises, some hand-waving, smoke and mirrors.

---- "Charity Case" by: "MC Frontalot" http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441

Outro

The difference between Lamborghini or Ferrari and Chrysler or GM is that, wait for it, the luxury car companies didn't over-extend themselves.

The recession just lopped off some of the waiting list. The factories are as busy as ever.

This seems to be a generalized malaise endemic of the atitude that kills car companies or wipes out entire populations, and causes extinctions of both corporations and fauna.

Lets hope we grow at least as smart as other nations' governments, like Argentina's which mandated that everybody "must" be saving for their retirement, and as a result, is weathering the financial crisis far better than us.

In several countries, there is a mandatory percentage of  your salary that must be saved for your retirement.

Those are the countries who loaned the US Government the nearly one trillion dollars that the US Government now finds itself on the hook for. (And it may be the US Government that took out the loan but its the U.S. Citizens who have to pay every cent of it back.)

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"School's Out"
 by: "Alice Cooper & The Muppets"

Alice Cooper Staples Commercial

Song list:

"Dead Bodies in the Schoolyard"
 by: "Thin Acid Angel"
 http://www.thinacidangel.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Cigarette Schoolgirl"
 by: "Nino Tirez"
 http://www.myspace.com/ninotirez
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Schools Out"
 by: "Fire Underground"
 http://www.fireunderground.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Peaked in Highschool"
 by: "Jeff Mallon"
 http://www.jeffmallon.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Residential School"
 by: "SOL 3"
 http://www.myspace.com/sol3canada
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Charity Case"
 by: "MC Frontalot"
 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=80895957&s=143441
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=515774# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0383 Tertiary pain http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=514190#
YouTube videos:

Color Wheel for Kids: Demonstrations and Projects : Mixing Tertiary Colors for Kids
..

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...

This week is about the tertiary pain of a second-order derivative disease.

On a color wheel of agony, its sort of like mixing an orange flash of self-loating with the "red with shame" hue of embarrassment over feeling like we sometimes do.

And yet it is of primary importance that we realize that "we didn't do this to ourselves."

We couldn't even if we wanted to.

We just got sick.

---- "The Third Passenger"by: "BeebleBrox" http://www.acmerecords.com/beeblebrox.php

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"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "THIRD DRONE"by: "Jeff Rosiana" http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=2783e76c9e7a1ca62824199c1c3c8224
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

----

Well except for this...

I woiked like a dawg all last week.

Whew...

But...

My Book is out!

My book is out!

Oh my gawd, my book is OUT!

Its got:
â a frontispiece
â a Dedication.
â a Table of Contents
â Some History,
â Some Biography,
â Some Technology,
â Some Evolution,
â Some Episodes, (40 choice ones,)
â Some Parting Thoughts,
â URLs & references, a list of
â Books and one heck of an
â Index

Its awesome.

It comes as a

â 240 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, (ISBN 978-0-557-09127-0 )

or as a

â 274 pages, 4.25" x 6.88", perfect binding, white interior paper (60# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink, ISBN 978-0-557-09052-5)

Its even got nice covers, pictures, a blurb on the jacket and I'm getting some people to write little reviews and things.

If you'd like to support me in my various nefarious endeavors you'll head to Lulu.com and purchase a copy of "Episodes: The story of an MSer and of MSB's Podcast".

The link is "live" on the podcast. [ http://www.lulu.com/category/books/biographies_memoirs/2?fSearchFamily=0&fSearch=podcasting&fSubmitSearch=Go&showingSubPanels=&fSort=relevance_desc ]

Lulu.com is a victim of its own success.

If the page is a bit slow to load, wait, its worth it. :-)

If the page only shows one book, try reloading the page and wait some more.

The hardcover is beautiful but it IS a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The paperback is a pocketable version and better looking than most but it IS still a bit expensive for a single copy; they're cheaper if you buy lots of them; its eBook is $6.25.

The trade price, which Amazon would pay for ordering large quantities, goes down to about half of that but I'm practically eating my own shorts at that kind of ROI.

I need the money to live. Have some pity folks.

Buy which ever you want. (But wouldn't you have a nice hard cover? [Or, are you sure I couldn't talk you into a paperback edition? {I absolutely "need" the dough... :-}])

Oh all right.

Its the eBook then? [ sigh ]

---- "Anxiety, Third Movement" by: "Mark Heimonen" http://www.myspace.com/markheimonen

"Thesis:"

I'm going to quote from a page written by an MS blogger: [ http://www.healthcentral.com/multiple-sclerosis/c/32873/80297/pain-ms ]

"Tertiary pain,  the social, vocational and psychological complications brought on by primary and secondary symptoms, can be as painful, albeit it in a different way, as any pain associated with MS.

Those described here, and others like them, are life changing, sometimes devastatingly so, and rarely in a positive light.

MS steals our function, and it also steals our self-confidence, scrambles our social lives, and reduces or eliminates our independence."

If fact, that doesn't apply just to MS, but to all disabilities.

---- "On the Third Day"by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet" http://www.marriottjazz.com/

"Synthesis:"

Part of the tertiary pain that arises comes out of the ignorance is fostered by the US "health-don't-care" system.

The nose to the grind stone, shoulder to the wheel, fence-straddling rugged individualism of the "Horatio Algier" mythic hero was total bunk then, and its even more bunk now.

The only ones that like it are the same people, or the same kind of people, who preferred pinning their own customers like bugs on a steering wheel column as the result of a low speed crash rather than spend the three hundred dollars on collapsible steering columns, because they wouldn't pay for it, so that must mean that nobody else would pay for it either.

WRONG!

There is a kind of person who looks at everything through actuarial eyes.

Everything is on a profit and loss spreadsheet with these people or it doesn't exist.

They will go to their graves convinced that their own myopia must be the limit of everything.

These accountants of the soul would condemn their own mothers to a slow and painful death before they would consider helping their fellow man, because don't have an entry for being a decent human being on their spreadsheets.

I would laugh in their pathetic faces if it wasn't so tragic.

These people suffer from seriously withered souls.

They are deficient in the first and most human characteristic of empathy.

They can look at tragedy and never be affected by it.

These people represent the worst of humanity.

They can justify anything in support of their own cause and never even see what damage their unthinking, unfeeling behavior is having on their own society.

That's called being sociopaths.

Well turn about is fair play.

They just don't care about us as we suffer so we don't have to feel bad about their having to find another way to ply their trades.

Single payer health care is the "only" way to go and its been proven in every single civilized country, every single time its been applied.

No first or second world country has a health care system in such shameful disarray.

The US literally has a third world health care system and in Washington DC the infant mortality is looking up to that of bloody Haiti, for god's sake.

Tertiary pain looks like its going to stay unless and until we get rid of the block heads who clutter our horizon because people in the 'States are schizophrenic and self-delusional.

---- "The Third Passenger" by: "Monika Herzig" http://monikaherzig.com/

"Conclusion:"

Tertiary pain is tough, but it is one everybody can do something about at no cost to themselves.

Basically it just calls for people "not" to be such block-heads.

You want to hear something that should scare the defenders of the current "health-don't-care" system.

ALL medical expenses can be denied by the insurance industry.

ALL treatments are experimental because all of medicine is an imprecise field.

Doctors only ever practice medicine because, unlike engineering, nothing is ever guaranteed.

If ALL treatments are experimental then no surgery is ever justifiable.

Think of that as your coverage get dropped from a policy.

The insurance companies make their money by charging you for a policy and then denying you coverage that you paid for.

We'll get back to policies, coverages and the avoidance of risk in the next episode.

If you're hearing my voice, chances are that you didn't avoid risk well enough.

Sometimes right down to choosing better parents.

---- "Third Day"by: "The Alice Project" http://thealiceproject.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Color Wheel for Kids: Demonstrations and Projects : Mixing Tertiary Colors for Kids"

Song list:

"The Third Passenger"
 by: "BeebleBrox"
 http://www.acmerecords.com/beeblebrox.php
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"THIRD DRONE"
 by: "Jeff Rosiana"
 http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=2783e76c9e7a1ca62824199c1c3c8224
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Anxiety, Third Movement"
 by: "Mark Heimonen"
 http://www.myspace.com/markheimonen
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"On the Third Day"
 by: "Marriott Jazz Quintet"
 http://www.marriottjazz.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The Third Passenger"
 by: "Monika Herzig"
 http://monikaherzig.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Third Day"
 by: "The Alice Project"
 http://thealiceproject.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=514190# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0382 The Red Queen http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=509756#
YouTube videos:

"Red Queen Makeup" by: "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland"

..

"White Rabbit" by: "The Jefferson Airplane" (This is the one I remember from TV. [God I feel OLD...])
 
..

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...

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else â if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race ]

The famous fragment, uttered by Alice and the Red Queen, is from "Trough The Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

Indeed, its taking me all the running I can do to stay in the same place. But the decor is changing even faster.

This is the last month of the MSB's Podcast before it morphs into "The Disability Show."

Now lets get this show off the ground.

---- "Red Room" by: "Crash Anthem" http://www.myspace.com/crashanthem

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"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

----

Now I'm going to take the show down several notches in intensity. Can't live just on just rock and roll.

---- "Red Rooster" by: "Percy Strother" http://www.black-and-tan.com/
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

----

I'm angling after a fourth sponsor.

That's all I'm going to say for now.

---- "Red River saloon" by: "Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios" http://www.sanjacintorecords.com/

"Thesis:"

I was reminded of the dialogue between Alice and the Red Queen in "Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

It is indeed taking me all the running I can do to stay in the same place.

The events in the real world are making a mess of space and time. Its too fast in some places and yet seems to be dragging its ass in others.

---- "red carpet" by: "cristylez" http://www.reverbnation.com/soulcerebral

"Synthesis:"

The book is progressing nicely and should be ready to go to print by the first of October, (three months ahead of schedule.)

I've got to get some quotes from people about the book. I've got some ideas about that. :-)

The title of the book appeals to me on several levels. That's all I'm saying right now.

----

This September is the scheduled return of "The Disability Show" to the wire, (as opposed to "the air".)

WSPC will be hosting a live stream on Mondays afternoons at 17:00 EST (I will make it in time to work at WFMU because I've tried it and I don't have to actually be at their studios to do my "Community Desk" work :-) and I will be podcasting it later in the day on the RSS feed for those who can't attend to it right there and then.

----

I'm making progress at WFMU where, to everyone's regret, Mr. Rushkoff is tending to a personal tragedy as his mother has developed cancer.

Maybe you could go to his site and order a copy of his book "Life Inc". [ http://rushkoff.com/books/life-incorporated/life-inc-distributors/ ]

Buy the book so you can read what a caring and truly gentle man this gentleman really is.

----

I'm making waves, but not "The Air Waves", at WSPC where my marketing ideas are actually getting traction. (Life goes so much smoother when you can at least give the appearance of alignment.)

----

I'm starting to attract a new audience, one that's not tied to having MS.

The concept of using social media like Twitter and YouTube to discover each other and to communicate, while cross-linking, is being used as the currency of the New Media.

That seems to be what has actually happened to me.

What this means in a larger context, well, I suspect, but I'm still sussing out.

This will probably the the feature for the first episode of "The Disability Show".

---- "Rust and Red" by: "The Ram Boola Black" http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject

"Conclusion:"

I suspect that my life is built up of intense ten thousand hour segments when and whereby I can and often do change careers. (That's the conclusion reached in "Outliers The Story of Success" by "Malcolm Gladwell" [ ISBN: 978-0-316-01792-3 { http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248634859&sr=1-1 }] when discussing the careers of everyone from Mozart, to Nobel prize winners, to Wall Street Lawyers to people who "don't" live in Harlan Kentucky. )

10,000 hours divided by 12 hours a day (told you, I'm driven to succeed, [that's a conservative estimate]) divided by 250 days a year gives 3 and 1/3 years 'till success. (Once again a very conservative estimate since I have been doing this show in my own obsessive/compulsive way two and then three times a week since February 2006, have marshaled it through several format changes, and am now making it jump through hoops as it responds to the new pull a new and enlarged audience.)

Figuring out how to make it pay, by abandoning my concept of money for handling the payments, was the last hurdle.

I'm a happy man. I'm going somewhere.

---- "Red Car" by: "Yuma House" http://www.yumahouse.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Red Queen Makeup"
 by: "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland"

"White Rabbit"
 by: "The Jefferson Airplane"
(This is the one I remember from TV.)

Song list:

"Red Room"
 by: "Crash Anthem"
 http://www.myspace.com/crashanthem
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Red Rooster"
 by: "Percy Strother"
 http://www.black-and-tan.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Red River saloon"
 by: "Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios"
 http://www.sanjacintorecords.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"red carpet"
 by: "cristylez"
 http://www.reverbnation.com/soulcerebral
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Rust and Red"
 by: "The Ram Boola Black"
 http://www.myspace.com/theramboolablackproject
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Red Car"
 by: "Yuma House"
 http://www.yumahouse.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:46:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=509756# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0381 Sans sons, sans commentaires http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507842#
YouTube videos:

"Teardrop" by: "Massive Attack" (Video with lyrics)
..


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...

Catch the video at the beginning of today's episode on the blogroll at libsyn [ http://msb.libsyn.com/ ] or the one on the MSBPodcast wiki... [ http://www.msbpodcast.com ]

Hell, if you used iTunes to podcatch it, or if you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, click here and now for the YouTube video. [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXI77b6OlpE ]

I can wait for you to come back. I'm not going anywhere, honest...

---- "Attack" by: "Force Theory" http://www.forcetheory.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

And I'm making good progress on my book. You'll hear about it quite soon.

---- "Another Attack" by: "Zox" http://www.zoxband.com/
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

---- "Global Attack" by: "Ben Base" http://www.myspace.com/benbase

"Thesis:"

If you're NOT using iTunes, an iPhone or an iPod Touch, skip ahead to the song in the next chapter. (Oh, sorry, you probably can't...)

On an older iPod you could skip the chapter, but you couldn't link to the web.

---- "Attack of the Weiner Dogs" by: "Hardlogic" http://www.hardlogic.net/

"Synthesis:"

Okay, I had you chase off after the video "Tear Drop" by "Massive Attack" to accomplish the following things:

First, to let the video creep you out. (Its nearly good enough of a synthetic creation to do it. No, real babies don't sing in the womb and they certainly don't look like that, nor does a womb look like that either.)

Second, to let you experience how interconnected the user experience of .m4a audio file is compared to radio or even MP3 format files.

Third, to let you know that the theme for the TV series "House M.D." is a fragment of a very weird little tune by a very weird group of people who, by all rights should still be an indie band, but aren't.

And what does signing with a major label bring you?

Record distribution.

That it. Nothing else.

No more money than you can claw out of their fists.

No more promotion than you could afford to do on your own.

No more travel expenses than you're already paying for.

Lord help you if they actually fronted you any money, because you know you have to pay that back, don't you?

---- "Attack of the Green Men" by: "Moonchild Louis" http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4394084787

"Conclusion:"

This concludes our little demonstration of the linking capabilities of m4a files like the ones in this podcast.

We'll be back to normal next episode.

---- "Drum Attack" by: "Beats" http://client.337studios.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Teardrop"
 by: "Massive Attack"

Song list:

"Attack"
 by: "Force Theory"
 http://www.forcetheory.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Another Attack"
 by: "Zox"
 http://www.zoxband.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Global Attack"
 by: "Ben Base"
 http://www.myspace.com/benbase
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Attack of the Weiner Dogs"
 by: "Hardlogic"
 http://www.hardlogic.net/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Attack of the Green Men"
 by: "Moonchild Louis"
 http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4394084787
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Drum Attack"
 by: "Beats"
 http://client.337studios.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507842# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0380 Man, Oh Man http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507149#
YouTube videos:

"Man, Oh Man" by: "Persuasions"
..


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...

Money and its value is central to the economy and, as we have seen in a space months, that value goes from a perception of being rock solid into the perception of being as evanescent as mist and fog.

I just watched the ascent of money on PBS. [ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/ ] Its a great, great show.

Money, and the value of money, is so central to our own sense of worth.

----

Well, its on. I've recommended that the student council have contra-accounts for the clubs, associations and organizations which will reduce their 'debt' owed to WSPC, the "Voice of St. Peter's College" by ten bucks an ad, at one week per ad run time...

If they "don't" use their ads and promote WSPC in their clubs, associations and organizations, they owe "us" ... The easiest way "not" to owe us is to use up their ad budget.

Its enough to make sure that they use WSPC but its not so much that they don't have to be judicious in how they use it.

The school semester is fifteen weeks long, the amount in the contra-accounts is enough to cover ten of those weeks.

If they have events at the end of the semester, they'll have to "not" use WSPC for some of those weeks.

---- "Ain't It Hard" by: "Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings" http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/stable_sharon.html

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"

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

And I'm making good progress on my book. You'll hear about it quite soon.

---- "Biggest Mistake" by: "Carrie Catherine" http://www.carriecatherine.com/
 
Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

The second sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Join him in making friends among the disabled community and in sharing the resources and information we all need to live better.

---- "Just Feel Good" by: "Anduze" http://myspace.com/anduzemusic

"Thesis:"

I'm still trying to figure out what all can be done with the R16.

Man this thing is small but its like a hundred bladed Swiss army  knife.

Cubase LE 4 is also this ginormous multi-functional Hydra that's a little, a heck, who am I kidding, the thing is absolutely overwhelming.

I am about to do battle with the Gorgon and I "will" slay her,

---- "Everybody's Talkin' Bout My Baby" by: "The Beatsstalkers" http://www.myspace.com/thebeatstalkers

"Synthesis:"

The worst part, no make that the best part, is that there is a large community formed around the products so there are all kinds of videos and project files (bet you didn't know every one of these podcasts is a project in Cubase, and any project can run away into becoming a symphony, or a crappy little jingle.)

Cubase seems to be this complicated monster that has been evolving, "sub rosa", hidden for years.

The layout of the visual components clearly shows a Unix architecture and aesthetics.

The dialogue flow is clearly "old school" and though it clearly must reflect several generations of reflection and refactoring, it never strays too far from its roots.

This thing quickly becomes a mess of popup windows and the screen quickly has a cluttered feel.

But that's to be expected when you're dealing with a hundred bladed Swiss Army knife. Its cumbersome and it gives you way too much control, stuff that you don't expect to ever use.

Still, it does give you complete control. You just have to learn when you don't give a crap about stuff and don't need to bother.

I'm going to have to read "all" of the manuals anyway because I'm an obsessive lunatic and want to know all of it.

That however is not going to stop me from using the small subset that I do need to use and know in order to do a better job of putting the audio together on these podcasts.

---- "If I Knew" by: "Femi" http://www.femimusic.com/

"Conclusion:"

I'm just going to take it by small steps.

I'm doing this because I am going to branch out.

----

I am writing a book of selected episodes from the podcast and its also about doing this podcast.

That's going to come out in January.

----

I will be doing this show live for an hour on Sunday's at 15:00 EST, here in new Jersey. It'll still feature a mix of indie tunes and talk.

----

I'm taking "The Disability Show", live for an hour, on Monday at 17:00 EST to a whole new level. It is going to feature talk over the phone and/or Skype, guests and topics other" than MS.

I'm communicating with Rudy Sims and he's giving me some hints and pointing in the right directions.

----

I'll also be moving "The Thyme Warp", live for an hour, on Wednesday at 17:00EST forward a few centuries, in attitude if not in actual chronology, and featuring music your grand parents probably grooved to.

----

I'm taking Friday's off for school work. That should do it for me.


---- "Gods of Almost" by: "Daughters and Sons"

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Man, Oh Man"
 by: "Persuasions"

Song list:

"Ain't It Hard"
 by: " Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings"
 http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Biggest Mistake"
 by: "Carrie Catherine"
 http://www.carriecatherine.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Just Feel Good"
 by: "Anduze"
 http://myspace.com/anduzemusic
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Everybody's Talkin' Bout My Baby"
 by: "The Beatsstalkers"
 http://www.myspace.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"If I Knew"
 by: "Femi"
 http://www.femimusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Gods of Almost"
 by: "Daughters and Sons"
 http://daughtersandsons.net/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=507149# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0379 Wretched Wednesday http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=506184#
YouTube videos:

"Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." by: "Simon & Garfunkle"
..


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 have to do some marketing manager stuff today, as I release this. "You" can hear it whenever.

While you're enjoying this show, I'll be "doing lunch" (as opposed to eating) and trying out some budget ideas for WSPC.

----

Ok, ok, I'll stop it with the classical MIDI music at the end.

Jeez.

A little culture never raised any welts, you know.

---

The UPS man came on Monday and brought me a neat little toy.

The Samson Zoom R-16 is going to be so much fun.

I have cleaned some space on my desk and installed it, but not ensconced it in there, because it is capable of doing remote 8-track recording and mixing.

(So now I'm going to be looking which bag to use to carry it in, along with some mikes, tripod stands, cables and gaffer tape.)

----

I'd like to introduce you to Rudy Sims and his disability resource exchange, which is a kind of social network for the rest of us, so I'm going to feature links to it in the Feed Forward segment.

---- "Midnight Wednesday" by: "Dave Howard" http://hiddenagendamusic.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
 
----

Rudy Sims is not an MSer but he is someone who is very, very, active in the disability circuit, on Twitter, he has a wiki and has a couple of sites for people who are coping with disability.

He is currently running and promoting the Disability Resource Exchange [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ].

I would urge everybody out there to go and check out the site as its got a lot of people on it so there is a greater likelihood that somebody knows exactly how to help.

----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "Wednesday" by: "Durango" http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/www.endgame.com.au

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have THREE sponsors. Success breeds success.

It you're listening on this podcast through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (whispers) That's the whole idea.

I'm a big T-Shirt wearer since losing my job and giving up the monkey suits.

I'm wearing one of the many shirts right now. The one that says: "Guitarded". I've even got a compliment on it on the boulevard around the corner from my apartment.

----

My next sponsor is the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  from every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

----

The third sponsor is someone by the name of Rudy Sims who has a web site for people who are disabled in some way or other to exchange their information and other resources. [ http://www.disabilityresourceexchange.com/ ]

Rudy has Cerebral Palsy. I have MS. Somebody else has something else.

He is on Twitter.  

I am on Twitter.

(Some people say I must be on drugs, but they're just mean and don't want to share theirs. [But enough about the for-profit health-don't-care system that all American are burdened with, {along with the poorest nations on earth, for whom an illness usually is a death sentence.}])

He also has a website called Coping With Disability [ http://www.copingwithdisability.com ]

This site shows the proper spirit and "can do!" attitude that says that he might be different from the norm, but his use of the technology available to him turns the barrier of disability  into something much more manageable by using adaptive tools and techniques as an equalizer.

I admire him for that.

---- "Wednesday's Child" by: "Homespun" http://myspace.com/homespuntb

"Thesis:"

I'm glad that Rudy got in touch with me.

I'm thinking of branching out and reaching more people.

The problem with MS is those damned demographics.

0.0833% of a population is a damnably small base to build on, to try to reach all of the MSers out there.

---- "wednesday morning" by: "slackstring" http://www.slackstring.com/

"Synthesis:"

I'm trying to expand the listenership by appealing to everybody out there with any sort of disability, which as you know is around 15% of the population, or 975 million people on this planet alive right now...

Needless to say, the actual number of people is much smaller since, instead of 6.6 billion people, the relevant population that I can reach over the web works out to a measly half-a-billion English speakers, out of which a mere 75 million are disabled, to a varying degree and for a varying period of time.

Still 75 million potential customers and voters is enough to get people in economic or political positions to sit up and take notice.

I should get the various postal services, UPS and FedEx to sponsor me. No matter what, everything'll need shipping from the point where its made to your doors.

---- "7:30 Wednesday" by: "Spudnik"  http://www.spudnikpop.com/

"Conclusion:"

I'm still an MSer but to even reach them all, I have to think larger than that.

So I'm tossing in my lot with Rudy, for a while in  an effort to reach more of you.

The weekday shows are going to be music for all disabled people and the show will be a platform for ads for products which can make anybody's life easier, better or plain nicer.

---- "Wednesdays Song" by: "Martin Blasick" http://wednesdayssong.wordpress.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Wednesday Morning 3 A.M."
 by: "Simon & Garfunkle"

Song list:

"Midnight Wednesday"
 by: "Dave Howard"
 http://hiddenagendamusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Wednesday"
 by: "Durango"
 http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/www.endgame.com.au
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Wednesday's Child"
 by: "Homespun"
 http://myspace.com/homespuntb
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"wednesday morning"
 by: "slackstring"
 http://www.slackstring.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"7:30 Wednesday"
 by: "Spudnik"
  http://www.spudnikpop.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Wednesdays Song"
 by: "Martin Blasick"
 http://wednesdayssong.wordpress.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=506184# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0378 Monday, monday http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=505225#
YouTube videos:

"Monday Monday" by: "The Mamas & the Papas"
..


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...

Nope. None. Everybody seems to be taking the time off.

Enjoy yourselves. Its later than you think. (OMG did I really say that? [And an "Old Foagie" bonus for anybody who can remember who sang that? {And I'm not talking abut those "Johnnie Come Latelies", "The Specials", I'm talking about the original singer with "Guy Lombardo.}])

Which helps explain the YouTube video at the front.

Ahh, "The Mamas & The Papas." Mama Cass died much too young and her voice was silenced before we got to really hear it.

I'm still promoting the "Media Squat" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=169090703 ] with "Douglas Rushkoff" because I'm still doing it. I have to say I have fun doing the community desk stuff.

And Mr. Rushkoff is such an inspiration. Why do you think I'm writing my book?

---- "Goodbye Blue Monday" by: "Anna Laube" http://www.annalaube.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
 
----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "Looking Out On Monday" by: "Greg Johnson" http://www.gregjohnsonmusic.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Monday Blues" by: "Hardwire Speers" http://www.hardwirespeers.com/

"Thesis:"

so now that you know my plan for world domination (and if you don't know it, click now to get the episode, [ http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/msb-0377+Man+Friday%2C+or%2C+its+Friday%2C+man ]) what do you think of it?

---- "Monday Afternoon" by: "Philippe Saisse" http://philippesaisse.com/

"Synthesis:"

Its my plan to reduce my patter on the free shows (but not the sponsorship messages,) and still maintain the same three shows a week.

They'll just be a half an hour long. Like this one...

Sunday's is when I will be doing my hour-long show for paying customers.

That show will feature music, emails, voice mails via Skype, maybe  a cohost (I'm trying, okay, I'm trying.)

---- "houzy monday housy" by: "Muzik 4 Machines" http://muzik4machines.com/

"Conclusion:"

So what do you think of the idea?

I really need to know if you're on board with the idea on if you think I'm nuts.

Also how many of you are interested in a book about my MS, my life and some show notes?

---- "Monday" by: "Specimen 37'" http://www.specimen37.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract
and
"Allemande"
 by: Carlo Calvi"
 http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/midiplay/playmidi.shtml?midi/n1/cal01
 no album
 via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Monday Monday"
 by: "The Mamas & the Papas"

Song list:

"Goodbye Blue Monday"
 by: "Anna Laube"
 http://www.annalaube.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Looking Out On Monday"
 by: "Greg Johnson"
 http://www.gregjohnsonmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Monday Blues"
 by: "Hardwire Speers"
 http://www.hardwirespeers.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Monday Afternoon"
 by: "Philippe Saisse"
 http://philippesaisse.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"houzy monday housy"
 by: "Muzik 4 Machines"
 http://muzik4machines.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Monday"
 by: "Specimen 37'"
 http://www.specimen37.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=505225# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0377 Man Friday, or, its Friday, man http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=504124#
YouTube videos:

"Friday I'm In Love" by: "The Cure"
..


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've just been too busy to notice any.

I've given up on the surveys. Did'ja even notice....

I'm still doing community desk of "The Media Squat: for Mr Rushkoff. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=169090703 ]

I certainly encourage you to get it on iTunes. Just click on the image and I'll take you to the iTunes Store for the free subscription.

I'm still wading through all of this vinyl. Okay, I'm partially reliving my youth and having a gas doing it.

I was going through"The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time" from the "Franklin Mint" and getting blown away by Louis Armstrong all over again.

The man was so good. He blew so true. Man oh man.

And I still have the "Smithsonian Institute collection of Jazz" and the "Time-Life collection of Swing Music" as well as a few hundred classical and QuÃbecois music albums to media shift to MP3s.

---- "Latin Friday" by:"The Jackass-Penguin Show" http://www.myspace.com/jackasspenguinshow

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"
 
----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "Girl Friday" by:"Hoverfly"  http://www.myspace.com/hoverflynow

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Friday Girl" by:"FOLIO" http://www.myspace.com/nuwaveboi

Thesis

I am at a crossroads. One path leads to desperation, to poverty of the soul, the spirit and the body; while the other leads to being just another shill, with a poor soul, spirit and, because of my MS, a poor body.

I "know" I can't be a pitchman or a shill.

It simply wouldn't ring true.

I'm listening to two of them right now, as I write this. (Yes they have podcasts for everything now, don't they? Even the "Mary Kay" wannabe's of the world.)

They have such a glib and facile way of patting themselves on the back and filling the air with camouflaging words while they inch their way closer to your checkbook.

I don't even blame them. I want them regulated, sure, but not banned because they actually do some good, when they're not selling snake oil and aware of it. We'll get back to "Snake Oil" later.

These people inform us, they entertain us and, damn it, that's just what I wanted to do.

---- "Friday Evening" by:"Big George Jackson Blues Band" http://www.black-and-tan.com/

"Synthesis:"

I know I have to work or I'll go nuts and become an insufferable ass-hole.

I also don't want to be a broke-ass, insufferable ass-hole.

I also want don't want to lose this voice that I've found online, (and it may not cost a lot but its not free. [Not free to me anyway.])

I have a voice that's been heard over 150,000 times since I started podcasting.

That's actual complete down loads, not people gazing glassy-eyed at a blog posting but really, actively, downloading the shows.

People like to listen to the music, they like to listen to the stuff I say, sometimes. (I'm going to be modest and say that some of them can even tolerate my delivery.)

Maybe I can turn that into a service for my audience.

Maybe I can turn my talents for finding things out, finding pleasant tunes, and coming up with sensible suggestions, into a service.

I'm going to take my list of topics, my decidedly odd but sensible fog cutting no-BS outlook on life and write it in a book which will be coming out in January.

I'm taking this show into a shorter half-hour free-mium show and the premium will be a weekly full hour show.

The free-mium will of course contain at least one ad for the premium show, as well as any  ads from any and all of my sponsors.

The price for ads on episodes of the free version of the show is that the advertiser must be willing to put up reciprocal links. As long as they're willing to put up an ad for me, I am willing to carry an ad for them.

That's it.

Sweet, simple and cheap.

----

The price for ads on on the premium show is going to be extremely expensive.

I'm not going to say I'll never run one, but damn near, because I'll have priced access to your ears out of reach.

I also intend to host it right off of the wiki and it will cost $5/month or $50/year. That should cover my band width and hosting expenses.

There will be virtually no ads on the paid version since you have already paid.

When I discuss a product, it'll be one I use, because I used it.

Expect the same kind of show, with a thesis, synthesis and conclusion because it works, mate it flippin' works.

Its going to be an hour long and recorded live on Sunday's at 15:00 EST.

One of the computers will have Skype for dial-ins.

I'll have all of the songs, audio effects and everything else cued up on my D.A.W. (my digital audio work station.)

Rockin' hot-ness.

----

I intend to make most of my folding money with my writing. (I don't need to pretend that I'm Stephen King. I'm not. Nor do I need to command his kinds of rates. My needs are a lot simpler.)

This January, I'll be releasing a book of the scripts of these shows and some personal/inspirational history.

The print version'll be numbered 1 to 5,000, individually printed and autographed (You have to see my handwriting to get "that" joke.)

The price will be $19.95, plus shipping and handling.

An on-line PDF will be delivered "free" to my $50.00/year subscriber, with the hopes that they'll buy the hard-copy,(like I did for the book "Free" by Chris Anderson. :-)

----

It's now later as promised in the Thesis. This is an aside I'd started and it took a bit of time so rather than clip it, it deserves to end this synthesis.

(My old man worked for Merck [Merck, Sharp and Dohme at the time,] and he didn't give up on the company like Kurt Vonnegut did.

He too could have become disillusioned. Instead he rose up through the ranks and became a district sales manager.

[Then his kidneys failed and he was one of the first dialysis patients to "not" go bankrupt trying to pay for it, for a little while anyway, because of the new socialized medical system in QuÃbec.

Instead of dying right there and then, after burning through all of the family resources first of course, {the for profit health-don't-care piper wants his pound of flesh and there is no "Portia" to save your butt from their "Shylocks",} he went on to another twenty years of being a dad, paying his taxes and working as the printing manager for Merck-Frostt Canada.

Don't give me the BS about that being the first step on the slippery slope to socialism.

Its called being a "Responsible Citizen".

We know that some 15% of the population is disabled to some degree at some point, The individuals change but the ratio over a large enough sample is remarkably constant. {For profit health care is health-don't-care and, yes, its only sub-human scum that try to deny what its true and real cost to us all really is: misery, pain and premature avoidable death. ("Sorry Johnny but the choice is between your lungs and three hours of keeping my corporate jet with the gold plated dinner service up in the air, so, you have to DIE, MOFO, DIE!")}])

---- "Five OClock Friday" by:"Christy McLaren" http://www.clubshedlive.com/

Conclusion:

So I'm going to wait a month and collect your emails and we'll see if I am full of caca of maybe I've got something here.

I have had feed back from Greece, from Holland, from Canada that was so good that I had people who were co-hosts or running their own shows.

Lets get some feed back from you.

Here is your action item, click on the link now, right now, [ mailto;charles@msbpodcast.com?subject=I use these products because I have MS ] and to write me about the things you use day to day because you have MS.

I have things I use everyday  things that I'd never use if I didn't have MS, things like Rebifâ, things like my canes, things like the MS T-Shirts, things like the CADDi.

What products do "you" USE in your lives, because of your MS?

Please tell me.

---- "'Friday Night" by:"Todd Carey" http://www.toddcareymusic.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract
and
"18 Century Suite #1"
 by: Anonymous"
 http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/midiplay/playmidi.shtml?midi/b/1suite
 no album
 via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Friday I'm In Love" by: "The Cure"

Song list:

"Latin Friday"
 by: "The Jackass-Penguin Show"
 http://www.myspace.com/jackasspenguinshow
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Girl Friday"
 by: "Hoverfly"
 http://www.myspace.com/hoverflynow
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Friday Girl"
 by:"FOLIO"
 http://www.myspace.com/nuwaveboi
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Friday Evening"
 by:"Big George Jackson Blues Band"
 http://www.black-and-tan.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Five OClock Friday"
 by:"Christy McLaren"
 http://www.clubshedlive.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"'Friday Night"
 by:"Todd Carey"
 http://www.toddcareymusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=504124# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0376 Wyrd Wednesday http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=503327#
YouTube videos:

The Wyrd Sisters, perform in New Jersey to help raise money for a friend in need of a liver transplant. Featuring Pirate Chris from the Pirates of the Cape.

..

SOUR 'æããéè (Hibi no neiro)'
..


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...

Okay, there isn't any. Considering that its been about my opsies lately, I don't mind. :-)

---- "The Angels Tell Her" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"
 
----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "John Badertscher" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Skin" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Thesis

There's not much happening because there's too much to do.

I am currently digitizing all my vinyl and that has to be done in "real time".

So I'm going to play some music by the "Wyrd Sisters" and the video is one of their performances too.

Its also the name of one of a series of DiskWorld novels by Terry Prachett featuring a bevy of central characters, none more central than Granny Weatherwax, (though Nany Ogg would beg to differ.)

---- "Travel" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

"Synthesis:"

I am torn about whether to continue on my original course or to tell you of the awe and majesty of he Disk World and so lift your lives from the dreary and the mundane up to the imaginative and fantastic.

I "was" making this a show about imagination and the perfect execution that is shown in the second YouTube video accompanying this episode but...

Oh Hells!

Here goes very little.

Sit, sit. Are you all sitting comfortably?([shouted] Sit the [expletive deleted] down!)

We're going to go on a overflight of a most unusual place, consisting of a disk of earth and water, resting on the shoulders of four gigantic elephants all riding on the shell of "A'toon" the space faring turtle.

This place, a plate which is an entire world, consists of a pair of continents and an enormous ocean girt round by a circumfence.

The continents are the separate  XXXX, aka Terror Incognita, and the Agatean Empire on the counterweight continent which is thinly connected to the main conjoined kingdoms of Klatch and Ramtops.

Its populated by all manner of characters from the wizards of the unseen university in Ankh Morpork to the witches of Lancre and from the
 fearsome residents of the mountain of Ãberwald to the sinister touaregs of the deserts of Djelibeybi, passing through the more colorful characters who make The Shades in Ankh-Morpork such an interesting place to visit, at high speed.

Yes, cartography of the place is quite fascinating on the diskworld.

---- "Unforgiven" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Conclusion:

Now, I will endeavor to tell you that heads much wiser, and closer to the block, than mine have determined that "A'Toon"is a "female" space-faring chelonic.

I'll let that sink in, shall I?

What adventures can be had on a disk, carried on the shoulders of four elephants, riding atop a space faring turtle?

Let your imaginations run wild... Terry Pratchett certainly did.

---- "The One That Never Was" by: "The Wyrd Sisters" http://www.wyrdsisters.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract
and
"Fugue No. 1"
 by: J.S. Bach
 http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/bach.html
 Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
 via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"The Wyrd Sisters" by" "The Wyrd Sisters"
and
"æããéè (Hibi no neiro)'"
 by: "SOUR" which is one of the most clever image construction and composition jobs I have ever seen.

Song list:

"The Angels Tell Her"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"John Badertscher"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Skin"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Travel"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Unforgiven"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The One That Never Was"
 by: "The Wyrd Sisters"
 http://www.wyrdsisters.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to my books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=503327# charles@msbpodcast.com Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0375 One in Tweve-Hundred http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=502435#
YouTube videos:

Paramore Misery Business Music Video (HD)
..

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...

Thanks [name withheld] for telling me that it would be better if I carried all the videos over onto the MSBPodcast.com site rather than leaving them off, and for pointing out that there was a problem with the third and fourth videos on the libsyn.com feed.

They're all fixed up now and a lot easier to find numbers 2 to 10.

---- "A Rare Breed" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

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"

Today marks the beginning of a week of celebrations at MSWorldExpress. It runs from July 13 through to the 19, 2009. They are thirteen years old.

They still don't understand squat about promotion or advertising and I got this news, literally hours ago, instead of having the time to properly pitch it to you.

Given the reception lag between the time I get the news, put it on the wire and when you pick it up, hear it and respond, the monday event is absolutely dead to you.

The Next Veterans Affairs (VA) Patient Education Conference Call on Managing Cognitive Issues and Mood Changes in Multiple Sclerosis is a total wash.

I definitely don't expect you to drop everything and rush over there there, if there's any there left.

But they did give me enough lead time to tell you about something.

And I Quote:

The Next MSCast is This Week!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Topic:      Commorbidities and Key Factors That Affect Quality of Life
Speaker: Dr. Alex Rae-Grant, MD of the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center
Date:       Thursday, July 16th
Time:       1 - 2 PM Eastern Time
 
To sign up for this webcast and submit questions please Click Here [ http://www.mscast.net/Register.aspx?Signup=Y&CEActivityID=3094 ]

To view the Schedule of Events, Planned Topics, Sign-up for future events, or listen to a previously recorded MSCast, please Click Here [ http://www.mscast.net ] for the MSCast Home Page.
 
Please send feedback on any of the MSCasts to mscast@msworld.org  

Folks, "comorbidity" is spelt with only one "m".

But I pronounced it like you'd sent it, with two "m"s.
 
----

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

---- "On My Way" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Far Away" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Thesis

The title of this post refers to our rather dismal position in the firmament of disease.

Like black holes, many are super massive, like cancer, the center of every galaxy is proving to harbor one, many more are small, like stellar mass, like the common cold, but to date only a few are known to be in the middle scale of a few thousand solar masses, like MS?.

---- "The Night Drive" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

"Synthesis:"

To stretch a metaphor even further, we are extremely rare creatures. Only one in twelve hundred people on this planet are afflicted with MS.

This bodes well for the population just as it sucks to be us. Only 0.0833% of the people on this planet seem to get MS; mostly between the polar regions, where its too cold to live long enough to notice MS, and the equatorial region where there's plenty of other other ways to die first before MS is anything more than a contributory factor.

Being only one in twelve hundred means that we are way too small a population to ever attract any attention from the major media, where figures like 20% minimum market are being bandied about.

The WHO (the World Health Organization,) estimates that some 15% of the world's population is disabled in some form of other at some point or other.

That's still some 5% too low.

MSers making up 0.0833% means that we can't ever expect to get more than a mention on the evening news about something that's already happened. That's NOT PR, that's TOO LATE!

While we're never, ever going to get on the media, we ARE on the internet, in force and with permanence, BUT that does not mean that the lessons learned in advertising about timeliness, frequency and reach of a message don't apply.

Sending an email out one day before an event is a waste of my time and deserves to get ash-canned by my spam filters.

I hope you folks get in touch with people at the incorrectly named "Astute Technology [ http://www.astutetech.com/contact.asp ] to send them an email to tell them that just because they're using the net to reach targeted individuals, they're not supposed to ignore the civilities about giving people enough time to react.

We're "not" all hanging onto life by our fingernails just waiting for their pronouncements,

---- "A Time For War" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Conclusion:

I love writing the text for these episodes .

Where else could I ever compare this disease to an astrophysical phenomenon and make it stick.

MS is a black hole where my dancing ability has forever disappeared beyond some event horizon while the rest of me has been stretched, spaghetti-fied between the big bang event of my birth and my own upcoming, inevitable heat-death.

Yep, I do enjoy the writing, indeed.

---- "Misery" by: "Mellow Rex" http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract
and
"Prelude No. 1"
 by: J.S. Bach
 http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cmc/bach.html
 Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
 via Public Domain

YouTube video list:

"Misery" by: "Paramore"

Song list:

"A Rare Breed"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"On My Way"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Far Away"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The Night Drive"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"A Time For War"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Misery"
 by: "Mellow Rex"
 http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=7206
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=502435# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0374 Gasbagin' http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=501501#
YouTube videos:
Gasbags 1/10 (1941)
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Gasbags 2/10
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Gasbags 3/10
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Gasbags 4/10
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Gasbags 5/10
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Gasbags 6/10
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Gasbags 7/10
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Gasbags 8/10
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Gasbags 9/10
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Gasbags 10/10
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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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm waiting for things to arrive.

I've got a book coming, the dead-tree edition of "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson".

He's is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and he's got a nice voice and delivery.

I'll be giving you the Amazon link to the dead tree edition because I think there's any more free downloadable ebook copy.

 (The book is here at last. [

And here is a two-tiered business model:

â one tier is a free model for the little birdies {the cheap, cheap, cheap} which is, perforce, an ad supported model {viz: my sponsors} and

â one tier is a free-mium model where for a subscription price of $50.00 per year the ads are separated out onto their own section of the wiki and don't intrude into a weekly, hour-long version of the program of the music with my commentary.])

I'm also waiting for a Samson Zoom R16 8 Track SD Recorder Controller Interface and then everything about my recording of this show might change, or it might not... It depends on various things...

I just bought a new cane.

Its the same ergonomic type as my current red one. (Red in nature is a warning, as in "Don't screw with me 'cause I can "kill' your [expletive deleted { Indian Elephant Sound effect }] ass!")

Ever notice that the curve on a cane is one way  while the curve of your hand i diametrically the other way.

My "pommel" handled cane provides me with the best and most stable support. I'm hoping to get an email from the manufacturer. (I've got other potential sponsors in mind too.)

---- "trash bag" by: "arthur yoria" http://www.arthuryoria.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

I'm working on it... I'm working on it... I'm cursing and working, but I'm working on it.

----"Heart-Shaped Bodybag" by: "Jeremy Jacobs" http://www.zagboodle.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Dirtbag" by: "Brad Sucks" http://www.bradsucks.net/

Thesis

I'm taking a break this episode and digesting the dead tree on tender hooks version of "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson".

Wednesday, I watched episode 1 of "Ascent of Money" which to quote the PBS website, is "A four-part series that chronicles how the modern financial system came to be, including the evolution of money, the relationship between money and war, the role that risk plays in creating wealth and the interconnected nature of the global economy."

I'm waiting on tender hooks for my Samson R16 8 Track SD Recorder Controller Interface.

Its quite a trial testing all of these virtual "control surfaces" but I think I'm going to be sticking with the one that comes bundled in, Cubase 4 LE (the LE means "bundled in", doan'ch'nà [No Sir, I did not know. :-])

It seems to be the best of the lot.

---- "Dirtbag" by: "Will Kriski" http://www.willkriski.com/

"Synthesis:"

So I'm sitting at my desk with a three computers computer keyboards (2 Mac laptops and a PC desktop,) an M-Audio KeyStudio 25 MIDI keyboard, a Behringer 1204 FX mixer three mikes, four external hard drives and I'm going to have to make room for my new R16. Since the mixer is being replaced, it can go and old PowerBook can go too I guess.

I'm already going through some Cubase 4 LE videos and literature I found on the web in anticipation.

I'm facing some question as to where I'm going to put the DAW (the digital audio workstation.) Something is going to end up on the floor. You'll see why in a moment.

I'm listening to another audiobook"The Conservatory" by "Michele Roger" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=292035313 ].

I wasn't into chapter two but I was seized by an intense wish to get into composing again.

Chapter 1 ends with a little improvised Irish piece piano and harp piece called "Separation of Body and Soul" that stirred something in me that I had long thought out of reach.

I will be using my MIDI keyboard, some instrument samples, GarageBand, Cubase 4 or some combination of the two and I will be composing and playing again.

It will not be live, like I did with my guitar, but I will instead be using all of this technology to play again.

I will enjoy making music again. Composing two part inventions, partitas and whatever else strikes my fancy.

It'll take more time but it will be easier to get the timing right than it ever was. No more practicing and endless repetition.

Its been so long. Too long.

---- "Kick Bag" by: "BronweN" http://www.bronwenmusic.com/

Conclusion:

I'm going to enjoy this.

When the R16 gets here I'm going  to move some things off the desk and set myself up to do all kinds of things with it.

MIDI instruments are my FRIENDS.

As you will see in the upcoming episodes, no, don't worry, I wont subject you to my own paying, but I will start inserting pieces as my theme and incidental music.

---- "Bag Of Tricks" by: "Rohan" http://www.rohanforsale.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract
and
"Le Bal"
 by: Bizet
 http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bizet.htm
 no album
 visa Public Domain

YouTube video list:

Gasbags 1/10 (1941)

Song list:

"trash bag"
 by: "arthur yoria"
 http://www.arthuryoria.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Heart-Shaped Bodybag"
 by: "Jeremy Jacobs"
 http://www.zagboodle.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Dirtbag"
 by: "Brad Sucks"
 http://www.bradsucks.net/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Dirtbag"
 by: "Will Kriski"
 http://www.willkriski.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Kick Bag"
 by: "BronweN"
 http://www.bronwenmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Bag Of Tricks"
 by: "Rohan"
 http://www.rohanforsale.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=501501# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0373 Just goofin around with numbers. http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=500870#
YouTube videos

"I DonÂt Want To Party" by: "doublePark" http://www.myspace.com/doublepark via "Una Prosel"

..

"nobody knows your name" by: "statistics' http://www.last.fm/music/Statistics/Often+Lie
..


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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Sorry about the lack of a show on Monday.

They were redoing the front step to our building, noisily.

It was worse than the usual. I can usually mask any residual noise with the show theme laying as a bed under my voice.

It turned out that the evening was no damn better. I had to listen to a car's defective alarm all frickin' evening and all frickin' night until the  car's battery eventually ran  down, at about 4:00 AM.

If nobody cares enough to put a stop to it, what's the point of a car alarm?

I would have cheered anyone who shut the thing up. It could have been thieves with a flat-bed truck. I still would have applauded.

----

I'm listening to and will soon read "Free - The Future of a Radical Price" by "Chris Anderson" who is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine.

More on this next week as its too large a topic to cover in a single show.

----

This week, I'm just goofing around.

This weekend was the Fourth of July and I enjoyed great ribs, wine and fireworks galore over the Hudson river.

Last week, what with the Collapse of Civilizations, was heavy enough that I don't want to tax anybody's brains today, least of all mine, okay?

I'm going to reveal to some of the listeners (and a couple of you "have" asked,) the secret to having a successful podcast which keeps grinding out episodes week-in week-out, like sausages shooting out from a sausage making machine.

Euwwww. What a disgusting visual.

---- "In Numbers" by: "Vs. {verses} (Richard Seypka)" http://www.reverbnation.com/richardseypka

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"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

Another week and another disappointment. Lining things up on a grid is getting to be a real pain, you kno'.

Lining up images in the grid should be easy, but in PBWorks, it ain't..  I'm missing something in their interface or they are.

Try number two 's coming... In HTML with CSS .

----"Numbers" by: "SingLadies" http://www.myspace.com/singladies

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "The Rondelles-Safety in Numbers" by: "The Rondellles" http://www.krecs.com/

Thesis

I'm going to tell you how these shows are put together, not because they're so difficult, once  you know what you're doing, they aren't, but because I want some people, potential contributors to this podcast, to get a load of how light a time commitment this truly is.

---- "Safety In Numbers" by: "the saving graces" http://thesavinggraces.com/

"Synthesis:"

Basically it a question of getting a form which can accommodate just about everything I want to pour into it.

The MSBPodcast program format that has evolved over the years so that its takes me longer to decide what to do than to execute on the program.

One thing which has helped me is going back the the data mines and seeing reality smack me upside the head.

My stats have made a few things abundantly clear: that having the show notes is actually useful to you and that you "do" read them before you download, or decide NOT to.

I am looking at the shows with the lowest listenership, like, lower than everything else, and that tells me that you all made a conscious decision to stay away from all 42 of  my WSPC Time Warp.

The stats for those shows were just abysmal. Though I don't really understand why? It should be pretty decent music to get you through dinner time.(Thats as maybe but I bet that if I had written proper show notes, putting the shows in some historical perspective with personal anecdotes about the scandalous salacious behavior of the artists at the time, you would probably have wanted to hear that.)

I'm probably going to encounter the same general lack of enthusiasm for my upcoming school series about "Classic Jazz"and "The Big Bands" on WSPC, but that's my cross to bear. and you'll hear about why in a couple of paragraphs.

I have "much" better download stats for the WSPC Disability Show and for the WSPC Peak Oil.

The absolute best download stats are for the shows that Herrad did for us years a couple of ago, in Dutch mind, for the much smaller population of the Netherlands.

That tells me two things, well three really, the Dutch really like her voice,  they really like her taste in music, I have to find a female host or co-host, like pronto.

Its turns out that you, my audience, is a lot more selective than you could ever be with traditional media where you DON'T have any show notes.

That imposes some burden on me to come up with better show notes for the upcoming WSPC series on Jazz and the Big Bands.

Luckily, I "do" have some commentaries on the recordings themselves and I will try to communicate to you the enthusiasm with which I discovered these albums.

Okay, I was a weird kid but I truly enjoyed these albums as a kid. They have a great deal of musicality and feature some great performances by some great artists.

---- "Paint by Numbers" by: "Shawna Caspi" http://www.shawnacaspi.com/

Conclusion:

So I hope you have a better appreciation of how I can do this podcast, read, study for college, have a wife, have a life and still find time to listen to my music (and I do... I do,) and to listen to my podcasts (which I also do,) and  listen to my audiobooks (amongst other books I have on the go, I'm listening to the audio version of a vampire novel: "Underwood and Flinch" right now. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203424910] . Its really good and I can't wait to discover how it turns out, but I have to because the author only releases one chapter a week.)

I figure as long as I'm interested, and I can communicate that, and I hope I'm interesting enough to be listened to (and/or have my show notes read.)

---- "Numbers" by: "Pompeii" http://www.myspace.com/pompeii

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"I DonÂt Want To Party"
 by: "doublePark"
 http://www.myspace.com/doublepark
 via "Una Prosel"

"nobody knows your name"
 by: "statistics"
 http://www.last.fm/music/Statistics/Often+Lie


Song list:

"In Numbers"
 by: "Vs. {verses} (Richard Seypka)"
 http://www.reverbnation.com/richardseypka
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Numbers"
 by: "SingLadies"
 http://www.myspace.com/singladies
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com"

"Safety in Numbers"
 by: "The Rondellles"
 http://www.krecs.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Safety In Numbers"
 by: "the saving graces"
 http://thesavinggraces.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Paint by Numbers"
 by: "Shawna Caspi" http://www.shawnacaspi.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Numbers"
 by: "Pompeii"
 http://www.myspace.com/pompeii
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=500870# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0372 And we're off http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=498749#
YouTube videos

"Johnnywise" by: "Modern Caveman" www.moderncaveman.com via "Una Prosel"

..

Horse Racing Movie
..
The song is actually "Out Of My Head' by: "Mobile" http://www.mobiletheband.com/


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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

At the front of this episode's posting is another excellent video from Sweden, once again suggested by Una Prosell.

My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think that's more a function of, uh, advancing years than MS, but I still remember the fun I had at a "Race for MS" with a difference at the "Rideau Carleton Raceway", back in 1988, (or was it '89)

The took charity to new heights, the restaurant at the grandstand, and put the fun in fundraising.

Hence the second video.

But the band is actually"Mobile" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_%28band%29 ] from MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada, my old haunts until the autumn of 1983.

i just down loaded a freebie .mp3 from their site and I'm going to play it last.

---- "The Race" by: "The Goldstars" http://www.thegoldstars.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

The website redesign looks like crap so I have to come up with some other design approach that allows me to get what I want done done...

----

I just want to say I have been enjoying my chats with "Tingly Feeling" [ http://www.tinglyfeeling.com/quality-life/various-updates/#comment-12021603 ] who's really newly diagnosed and finds it all still a bit bewildering, (my world and welcome to it "Tingly") and with Carla [ http://beyonditall.net/ ] who seems to be a smart MSer with a good taste in canes.

---- "Birds in a Rat Race" by: "Mountain Mirrors" http://www.mountainmirrors.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "The Rat Race" by: "Julia's Window" http://www.juliaswindow.com/

Thesis:

I'm not doing a review or a critique of the book  "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ]

I'm just giving my take on it and what thoughts the book sparked in me.

---- "Rat Race" by: "The Groove Mine" http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine

Synthesis:

Though the book was extremely interesting, the complete lack of guidance into applying this book to the present and possibly the future was one of the first things that I noticed on this, my second pass at rereading  the book, (I've already dog eared the book on pages I found, uh, interesting. It now looks as interesting as I'd found it to be.)

Of course that was expected from a book put out by an organization dedicated to "New Studies in Archaeology".

It discussed the civilizations of
â "Chou China",
â the "Old Babylonian Period",
â the "Third Dynasty of UR/Sassinian Period",
â "Old Kingdom Egypt",
â the "Harappans",
â the "Hittites",
â the "Mycenaeans",
â the "Mauryan Empire".
â the civilizations of "Monte Alban",
â the "Hohokam" and
â the "Haurii."

It utterly ignored "Angkor", "Ayutthaya" and other so called "jungle civilizations."

While not reflective of the current civilizations, I believe it shed a great deal of light on the newer civilizations, such as the "Khmer", dynastic Russia, the "Soviet Empire", my own "QuÃbecois" civilization, the "Cuban" under Fulgencio Batista and then under Fidel Castro, and countless others.

It discussed these in terms of "declining marginal returns" and it made one very telling point, that, and I'm quoting here, "collapse occurs, and can only occur in a power vacuum" and "What may be a catastrophe to administrators (and later observers,) need not be to the bulk of the population. It may only be among those members of a society who have neither the opportunity nor the ability to produce food resources that the collapse of administrative hierarchies is a clear disaster."

It covered declines and falls in terms of :
â "resource depletion",
â  "new resources",
â "catastrophes",
â "insufficient responses to circumstances",
â "competition with "other complex societies",
â "intruders",
â "confllict/contradiction/mismanagement" by the "soit disant" power elite,
â "social disfunction"
â "mystical" causes,
â the '"chance concatenation of events" and
â "economic explanations'

The book ends with a list of trends to watch for in terms of:
â agriculture,
â minerals and energy production,
â research and development,
â investment in health,
â education,
â government, military and industrial management,
â productivity of GNP for producing new growth and
â some elements of improved technical design.

All in all, it was a most illuminating read.

---- "Nitro - The Race Leader" by: "Dr. Awkward" http://drawkward.net/

Conclusion:

So we've come to the end of  "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ]

I hope I haven't bored you too much. Read it yourselves and tell me that i've missed things (I always do,) and whether or not you think I'm full of pie in the sky or just plain crap.

There is a quote from Branett and Morse  at the end of the book which I just love:
"No society can escape the general limits of its resources, but no innovative society need accept Malthusian diminishing returns."

No, its got nothing to do with MS.

That is not the point of these podcasts anyway.

They're supposed to be about how we're "coping" with life while providing a platform for advertisers to reach out to us MSers with the products they are selling to make our lives better.

Tomorrow is the "Fourth of July", so to anybody who is uploading it today tomorrow or this weekend, I wish you a happy fourth.

---- "Electrolove" by: "Mobile" http://www.mobiletheband.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

YouTube video list:

"Johnnywise"
 by: "Modern Caveman"
 http://www.moderncaveman.com
 picked for me by Una Prosell

"Out Of My Head'"
 by: "Mobile"
 http://www.mobiletheband.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

Song list:

"The Race"
 by: "The Goldstars"
 http://www.thegoldstars.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Birds in a Rat Race"
 by: "Mountain Mirrors"
 http://www.mountainmirrors.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The Rat Race"
 by: "Julia's Window"
 http://www.juliaswindow.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Rat Race"
 by: "The Groove Mine"
 http://www.myspace.com/thegroovemine
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Nitro - The Race Leader"
 by: "Dr. Awkward"
 http://drawkward.net/s
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Electrolove"
 by: "Mobile"
 http://www.mobiletheband.com
 album: "Tales From The City"
 via: http://www.mobiletheband.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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=498749# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0371 Further Complex Musings http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=497887# msb-0371 Further Complex Musings

YouTube videos

"Teach me" by: "Magdalena Konefal" www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

.

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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The YouTube video at the front of this episode comes to you from Sweden courtesy of Una Prosell and I think I'm going to let her suggest some videos from now on.

----

Some days are better than others. :-)

Monday was a good one.

You should all download WFMU's "The Media Squat" with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=309882144 ].

Dang, he's got good delivery and a good message.

Oh and I got acknowledged at 1:00:36 of "The Media Squat"

---- "Lost Civilization" by:"satya" http://music.download.com/satya

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"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

----

And now I want to mention Chris Sheridan of MS with no fear [ www.mswithnofear.com ] again as he's got some helpful thoughts [ http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/cat/depression-treatment.html?3690 ] on depression and MS.

I think having MS is depressing enough, thank you veddy much, and can empathize with people who suffer from depression because of their MS.

Like Chris, I avoid taking medication and after watching my father work for a pharmaceutical firm for years and years, I got an exposure that has definitely left me with a jaundiced view of anything without measurable causality.

The link is for a self-hypnosis e-book course. At nearly $100, its rather pricy so make sure its right for you, but if it is, buy it.

[Stage whisper: And tell me if you got anything from the course. I'll feature "you" as well. ]

---- "Classical Civilizations" by:"Ben Base" http://www.myspace.com/benbase

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Civil Revolt Part 1" by:"Kou Chou Ching" http://www.myspace.com/koucc

"Thesis:"

Well, that shows you that rap is a sentiment and an attitude, that's not tied to a specific culture. We have Chinese rappers.

We're back to  "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ]

Its such a rich, rich vein to mine.

The beauty of reading about the causes of failure of civilizations means that we can avoid their old mistakes, and have to find new ones instead.

But as long as cupidity is married to stupidity, the search "will" continue.

Its the same kind of behavior and reasoning that strikes anyone confronted with a sign saying "Don't Touch This!"

Any maintenance person can tell you that the worst place for fingerprints and around "Wet Paint" signs.

---- "educated" by:"citizeN" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

"Synthesis:"

Its a damnable human foible to rationalize an explanation, and if it sounds in any way plausible, to stop the investigation right there.

While that might sound sensible, people also believed that the earth was flat just because Aristotle had said so.

Always consider the source. Does it have any credibility in the area?(I wouldn't trust Aristotle to give me any astronomy lessons any more than I would trust a Korowai native to teach me about cooking. [Look it up. Wikipedia is a fount of knowledge.] )

He also thought that insects arose spontaneously from mud. I don't think even the most ardent creationist can believe that.

So what makes a Complex Society Collapse?

What gives rise to a complex society in the first place?

The part of all this that gives me hope is that the introduction of the internet gives rise to a mechanism for handling complexity so utterly breath taking that it has led to the utter collapse:

â of newspapers, while leaving people vastly more informed than before and able to find information to further their own education,

â of the RIAA, while freeing the artists of the oligopolistic model of music and sound production and consumption,

* of the mystico-econo-political structures of religion,

â of the out dated modes of production and consumption as we have witnessed in the collapse of the real estate and durable goods,

â of the off-shoring and out-sourcing of labor both for physical goods and for skilled labor.

Of course its not all skittles and beer you know. We have seen various non-states, such as criminal organizations, terrorist networks and other nefarious no-goodniks, take full advantage of the information flows possible since 1995 with the introduction of the web. They were much quicker to see the potential of the internet than the rest of the legit world.

Now I just have to survive while everything is up in a heaval.

The book was a great thought provoking read.

---- "Soul Education Feat. TearS" by:"The Lyrical Prophet" http://myspace.com/thelyricalprophet

"Conclusion:"

Anybody who says anything to me is likely to find me very skeptical.

I don't need to know the details (okay, I LOVE to know the details, all the details, all of the little niggling "drive you nuts with the endless stream of questions" details,) but I am going to ask that person to run a "sanity check" on whatever idea they advance.

If they can't, then screw 'em, and their half-ased idea.

Bugs do NOT arise spontaneously from mud, okay Aristotle?

But we have seen complex civilizations rise and fall several times all over this continent within a single lifetime, mine, in the sixties.

QuÃbec was so truly, deeply, completely and utterly transformed by "La RÃvolution Tranquille", the quiet revolution, that the death of the "old" agrarian QuÃbec civilization and the birth of the "new"industrial QuÃbec took place almost entirely while I I was still in grade school.

The 'States was also going through some major changes at the time too.

Everything from what we were to who we thought we were and our relationships to each other was dragged kicking and screaming into a new normal.

No we didn't all die and the world didn't come to an end for most people, but the change was total and complete.

I will get back to civilization, culture, politics and technology next episode for one last whack at this book.

---- "Uneducated Guess" by:"3rd Man" http://www.acmerecords.com/thirdman.php

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Video list:

"Teach me" by: "Magdalena Konefal" www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal picked for me by Una Prosell

Song list:

"Lost Civilization"
 by:"satya"
 http://music.download.com/satya
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Classical Civilizations"
 by:"Ben Base"
 http://www.myspace.com/benbase
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Civil Revolt Part 1"
 by:"Kou Chou Ching"
 http://www.myspace.com/koucc
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"educated"
 by:"citizeN"
 http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Soul Education Feat. TearS"
 by:"The Lyrical Prophet"
 http://myspace.com/thelyricalprophet
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Uneducated Guess"
 by:"3rd Man"
 http://www.acmerecords.com/thirdman.php
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=497887# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0370 In Case of Emergence http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=496890#
YouTube videos

Emergence - Complexity from Simplicity, Order from Chaos (1 of 2)
..

Emergence - Complexity from Simplicity, Order from Chaos (2 of 2)
..


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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Some of you (okay, only one of you,) questioned my putting my plans for January 3rd 2010 on the feedforward already.

I'm starting in July because these shows have an enormously long tail.

Some people may not pick up this show until December. I wish I was kidding.

My upload stats read like a novel in two dimensions.

One dimension is the monthly total downloads, which seems to be stable.

People come from the web or via iTunes and the web ones come and go, ebb and flow. (That what you get with podcasting. That's not what you want with web streaming...)

The other dimension transverses across the entire history of the podcast and reveals downloads of positively ancient shows. (Since they're not current affair shows, that's okay. [What I find funny is the people who like a show so much they download it multiple times. If they would just use iTunes, this would not be a problem {or cost me multiple times the bandwidth.])

Podcasting might be fine for some messages but its absolute death for others.

If you're running a contest or promoting an event, don't even think of using podcasting unless you're willing to start real, real early.

You'll get people replying long after its all over.

I am getting a lot of hits from people doing Google searches because I have complete show notes (for any listeners out there with cochlear implants, [you know who you are , :-] or on the days I mumble, mutter and chew my words its nice to have written backup.)

What's even more amazing to me is that a lot of those people, the ones who find me through googling, download the show, (even after they've read what I'm about to say and can read the text of everything they're going to hear.)

Creepy isn't it?

Must be that some people want to hear the indie music I pick.

I seem to have some taste and its not just in my mouth.

---- "Emergence" by: "Insidious New World" http://www.insidiousnewworld.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Emergence" by: "Kmotiv" http://www.kmotiv.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Emergence" by: "Trifonic" http://www.trifonic.com/

Thesis

I'm still digesting the book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ].

While I agree with some of his conclusions, I am wondering just how far they could/should be brought.

Its fascinating to confront widespread civilization collapse. Its also fascinating to realize its happened before, within my lifetime.

---- "EMERGENCE" by: "v.f.d." http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords

"Synthesis:"

I am also wondering the role of the internet, this accidental world changer issued forth from the US military as a means of communications that was capable of surviving a nuclear holocaust, as possibly defining a new supra-nation-state class of organization.

Its tantalizing to see the nation-state reactions in the face of recent events in Iran and the attempt of China to have PCs come pre-installed with "filtering" software, ostensively for stopping kiddy porn.

(Give me a break These people sold their children into servitude until Mao Zedong took the country away from the pre revolutionary influences of war and opium. [Yes, Mao used to be the GOOD guy.])

Once filtering software is installed who is going to control it? Not the people who are stuck with it, that's for sure.

The internet, since the creation of the web and its release from its non-profit and military limitations in 1995, (just a little over a dozen years ago,) has become absolutely indispensable to any complex society.

We're not talking about the Taliban and other pathetic psychopathic losers who actually want to turn back the clock about a millennium to make sure that they're in power, (over a bullet-strewn dung-heap, but they'd be on top, for a little while, until they ran out of food or bullets.

[What were the Taliban demanding before "Bush the Lesser/Latter" invaded Afghanistan? FOOD!

The Arabs world wasn't helping him either. They couldn't have cared less about the one eyed hate filled nut-job.

Bush only had to wait a few months and they would have traded Bin Laden in for a "Quarter with Cheese" and a six-pack...

BUT NO!

He had to send in the military to shuffle rubble with bombs and bury the evidence.

{Mullah Omar was a far worse threat to the ideology of a militant Islam than the west ever was.

(Bush was a simpering semi-simian who should have been prevented from running for any office higher than a dog-catcher in some Louisiana parish.)}])

[ Climbs down from soapboxes and gets back to the topic at hand.]

Does the internet make inevitable the emergence of supra-national globe-spanning complex civilization divided, not along arbitrary nation-states but along linguistic barriers.

Organization of people via linguistic affiliation spans the globe.

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, whatever... This method of aggregating people, and tying them all together with the internet is emerging, inevitably, inexorably.

Because of the nature of technology, the internet and its utter disregard for who's actually using it, means that we MSer are another way of aggregating a subgroup of the world population not merely by language but by interest, in this case, medical interest.

In this case nationalistic division makes absolutely no sense; it runs counter to logic and even to common sense. , (not that I'm claiming that  humans ever show much of either.)

---- "Emerge" by: "Shnikies" http://www.rockband.com/users/schartrand77/gallery/detail/P/3236072

Conclusion:

The internet is what is making this podcast possible but it is emblematic of the wider range of options and of difficulties.

How do we  stop nations and other state apparatus from interfering with health care, (Sticking their fingers into what is not in our interest to let them interfere. [ In fact its not even in their own interest for them to interfere with health care. ])

Obama may think he's got a hard fight but its almost trivial.

Only insure the uninsured and leave the rest alone.

Pretty soon he'll see the employers get the HMOs off of their books in pretty short order.

When its no longer necessary for them to cary all that HR debt, worry and expense, they WONT.

Then we'll have stage one of a world wide health care system.

---- "Music for Emergencies" by: "Stoat" http://www.stoatmusic.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Emergence"
 by: "Insidious New World"
 http://www.insidiousnewworld.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Emergence"
 by: "Kmotiv"
 http://www.kmotiv.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Emergence"
 by: "Trifonic"
 http://www.trifonic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"EMERGENCE"
 by: "v.f.d."
 http://www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Emerge"
 by: "Shnikies"
 http://www.rockband.com/users/schartrand77/gallery/detail/P/3236072
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Music for Emergencies"
 by: "Stoat"
 http://www.stoatmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=496890# charles@msbpodcast.com Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0369 Oops http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=496332#
YouTube videos

Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (Jonathan Coulton)
..


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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Oooo, I'm going to be doing the show for Mr. Rushkoff somewhere else next Monday.

He's recording it at "Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th and Broadway" and I'm going to check out their studio equipment. :-)

Dang, I was up all last night reading a fascinating book titled "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by "Joseph A. Tainter (ISBN: 978-0-521-38673-9 ) [ http://www.gettextbooks.com/search/?isbn=978-0-521-38673-9 ].

I won't bore you with the details ... yet :-)

Today you're getting only some music.

---- "Dannys Incredible Music - all garageband loops" by:"D*anny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, 'Mixed Nuts' or other friends and family)" http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=c5a8499e2956c0c0e1e98d2c2438f014

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"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Loops and Scales - Part One" by:"Darren Lock" http://www.darrenlock.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Haiku of Loopster" by:"HatHead" http://www.hatheadmusic.com/

Thesis

I told you I'm exhausted, late and I need a  coffee.

---- "Whoops I ODd - Live in San Francisco" by:"NOFX" http://www.fatwreck.com/

"Synthesis:"

You're going to get a few podcasts from my all-nighter.

---- "loopseeeee" by:"none" http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

Conclusion:

Now I'm going back to bed. Yawn

---- "not the shifties oops" by:"The Shifties" http://myspace.com/theshifties

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Dannys Incredible Music - all garageband loops"
 by:"*Danny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, 'Mixed Nuts' or other friends and family)"
 http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=c5a8499e2956c0c0e1e98d2c2438f014
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Loops and Scales - Part One"
 by:"Darren Lock"
 http://www.darrenlock.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Haiku of Loopster"
 by:"HatHead"
 http://www.hatheadmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Whoops I ODd - Live in San Francisco"
 by:"NOFX"
 http://www.fatwreck.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"loopseeeee"
 by:"none (Guess he was shy, or stupid)"
 http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"not the shifties oops"
 by:"The Shifties"
 http://myspace.com/theshifties
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:59:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=496332# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0368 Intrinsic Worth http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=495403#
YouTube videos

The Kiva Story
..


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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

tis episode is based on the concept of "intrinsic worth."

I was listening to the "Science Show" from Australian Broadcasting [ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/ ] and it sparked some thoughts.

I am starting to find all kinds of podcasts and, given the fact that I've had to rescan twice a day almost every day and the new digital channels come in spottily at best, podcasting has an opportunity to really make some real inroads right now.

---- "lend me your love" by: "slackstring" http://www.slackstring.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

This rightfully belongs in the Feed Forward segment.

I am starting to expand msbpodcast.com into an actual web radio station.

Starting in January 2010, msbpodcast will have an interactive component which will be called MS Web Radio [ http;//www.MSWebRadio.com ]

Right now its not operative and its only a repeater to bring people to the msbpodcast.com site but I'm going to retool the web site to handle the web radio component.

It will also be podcast so if you don't get to it, it will still be available after the airing.

MS Web Radio will be held for a half an hour every Sunday afternoon at 3PM (15:00) my time.

I will be taking my definitely, uh, unusual show and opening it up to everybody.

I'll keep you posted on my progress as it happens.

---- "Where dat Money Go?" by: "David Ippolito"  http://www.thatguitarman.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Coz They Invented Money" by: "Gravitator" http://gravitator.vox.com/

Thesis

This show is all about "intrinsic worth".

Part of the intrinsic worth of money is how easy or difficult it is to get access to it.

The video at the front of this episode concerns a micro-lending bank known as Kiva; there's no other word for it, it has lenders and borrowers. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization) ]

Its a bank.

---- "Money Ain't Time" by: "The Halley DeVestern Band" http://www.myspace.com/halleydevestern

"Synthesis:"

Working with Douglas Rushkoff [ http://rushkoff.com ] has opened my eyes to lots of things we could be doing about fixing the things that are just plain wrong with the financial system.

This is a system where  
â your paychecks or investments are poured into anonymous institutions,
â lent out to other anonymous institutions, (who work out secret deals for access to your money, [regardless of how you might feel about it,]) and
â where you earn almost nothing after inflation, (since a 2% interest rate on your checking account means you don't even break even.)

These financial institutions and banks are little more than just storage places for information about your money.

They certainly are less than ideal investment vehicles for you. (Your investment vehicle is out of gas right from the start so neither you nor your money are going anywhere.)

If you would like to have a small loan, you're out of luck because the old structures of the financial institutions aren't geared up for small.

Their fees are based on a a fixed startup cost plus a percentage of what they lend out.

Since small loans equals small fees, they aren't interested in small loans. They're interested in getting fees as large as possible.

I worked for financial services firms where the accuracy of bond transactions [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(finance) ] were calculated to 11 digits on either side of the decimal point.

They were likely looking to exceed those limits for 30 year bonds for large clients. Eleven digits come to 99 billion,999 million,999 thousand,999 units of whatever currency you care to negotiate in. (The long term US debt is now in the tens of trillions of dollars so my software would not be capable of handling that by three orders of magnitude!)

Now imagine you are a Peruvian native with a small food stall or a small store.

You need $100 to upgrade your stock, add on to the layout of your store or improve your capacity to do business.

Are you going to go to a bank?

You can't even afford a loan big enough to fill out the paperwork they would require you to take.

You can't make it worth it for them to know that you exist, but you still need the shelves or the stock or the cart or the bicycle.

That's where micro-loans and micro-lending come into play.

You get to know the person who's going to use your money directly because you direct who is getting access to your money.

The amounts are really small but you can even join a group to share the risk.

The opportunity exists to make friends and business partners across the globe doing something rewarding.

---- "Money" by: "Theory in Motion" http://www.myspace.com/theoryinmotion

Conclusion:

Check out Kiva [ http://www.kiva.org/ ] and get involved.

You can actually lend, not give, not donate, its not a charity, lend a small sum of money to an individual who'll be known to you, who's actually going to use it to improve his or her life, affecting the lives of those around them and who will actually pay you back.

All for a fraction of the cost of the money you're losing everyday (The recent financial melt down is costing us plenty and will continue to do so for the next 30 years, or until the next time somebody asks the idiots in the financial markets "which card is the ace". [shuffle shuffle shuffle, three card monty,{ the answer is its none of them silly, the ace got palmed before the cards were ever laid out on his little table.'}])

---- "Money Control" by: "Voide" http://www.voide.net/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"lend me your love"
 by: "slackstring"
 http://www.slackstring.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Where dat Money Go?"
 by: "David Ippolito"
 http://www.thatguitarman.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Coz They Invented Money"
 by: "Gravitator"
 http://gravitator.vox.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Money Ain't Time"
 by: "The Halley DeVestern Band"
 http://www.myspace.com/halleydevestern
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Money"
 by: "Theory in Motion"
 http://www.myspace.com/theoryinmotion
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Money Control"
 by: "Voide"
 http://www.voide.net/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=495403# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0367 Stay Focused http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=494324#
YouTube videos

Focus- Hocus Pocus (live '73)
..

Johnny Winter-Highway 61 Revisited (Centralia PA.)
..

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.

----


I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I'm an unashamedly great fan of the "Diskworld" novels by Sir Terry Pratchett and I have just been in touch with the young woman who's currently running the "From Rim To Hub" podast. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=301780640 ]

This a very young woman who obviously needs some help, so I offered.

How did I know she's a young woman?

She didn't know how to pronounce Abba (she called them a.b.b.a. like it was some form of meter measurement and she she'd obviously never hear of the Bee Gees, A.K.A. the Brothers Gibb.)

Oh Key fringgin' Christ, I felt do OLD. :-)

But that's the way the cookie crumbles.

---- "Focus" by: "Platypus Complex" http://www.myspace.com/platrio

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"

---- "Inner Focus" by: "absentmachine"  http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team" http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php

Thesis

The theme this episode is "Stay Focused" because that's so important for MSers.

And so exhausting too.

You have to stay focused on "everything".

If you're anywhere where you'd really like to let your hair down and really enjoy yourself, you cant really let your hair down and enjoy yourself because you're concerned with things like spasticity or even falling over.

Its hard to gracefully get a little tipsy on vino when you are either favoring one hand, and single handedness is a symptom of MS, or sloshing a glass of red all over yourself and your nice white shirt.

---- "Soft Focus" by: "Black Nite Crash" http://www.blacknitecrash.com/

"Synthesis:"

Stay Focused sounds like one of my darling wife's mantras.

But frankly its gets tiring never letting go, cutting loose and actually having the rest of that beer.

"In Vino Veritas", "Truth from wine",  used to be the old Roman way of proving who your friends were.

You'd lounge around the "vomitarium" attending to the orgy, getting pie eyed, and quaffing to your heart's content. (Quaffing it like drinking except you spill more.)

The following morning all that could even be remembered was forgiven. but the truth was known.

(Yes "vomitarium" sounds disgusting, and it was, but they were Romans and they totally owned the world, sort of like the "soit-disant" nuptual parties of the days of prohibition or the Bacchanals of Bernie Madoff and the like, [The libertine attitude of the Paris Hiltons of this world came from somewhere, you know?])

Lord I sound like a drunk but its been so long since I've had a pint or three at a pub with a friend while we bullshit and chew the rag.

That's one reason I miss Eugene since he returned to the "spawning grounds" to help take care of his old, cantankerous father, way the heck out on Long Island.

And Long Island makes me think of "Long Island Ice Tea".

Damn. I think I need a drink.

Heck, Its the week-end, i've got nobody who just dying to see me, so I think I will go out on this grey afternoon, do my slow dance between the rain drops and pop on down to the booze sore and buy a bottle of red for the pork chop we're having for supper.

---- "Drinkin With My Guitar" by: "ATL Producers"  http://www.atlproducers.com/

Conclusion:

MSers are faced with dilemmas because we can't ever really relax.

But if ever you want to turn the computer loose on something fabulously fun, try the "12 Days of Hogwatch" [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207871434 ] to get 12 short videos about the Diskworld  and get a glimpse at the imaginative mind of Terry Prachett.

Best of all ...  its free.

Oh, the "Centralia" "Highway 61 Revisited Johnny Winter YouTube video at the front of this episode is because I know somebody, originally from round there as it turned out.

The story of the underground fire there is a cautionary tale for us all.

Unchecked passions burn deep and lay waste to the surface.

---- "I Need A Drink" by: "Adam and the Walter Boys" http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Focus"
 by: "Platypus Complex"
 http://www.myspace.com/platrio
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Inner Focus"
 by: "absentmachine"
 http://msbpodcast.pbworks.com/MissingArtistPage
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"
 by: "Al Phlipp and The Woo Team"
 http://www.kevinwillis.net/wooteam/albums.php
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Soft Focus"
 by: "Black Nite Crash"
 http://www.blacknitecrash.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Drinkin With My Guitar"
 by: "ATL Producers"
 http://www.atlproducers.com/
 (And I HATE a record company taking an artist' work and putting their name all over it because its NOT sustainable.)
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"I Need A Drink"
 by: "Adam and the Walter Boys"
 http://www.adamandthewalterboys.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=494324# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0366 Lazy-Ass Journalists http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=493431#
YouTube videos

Leon Redbone Lazy Bones
..


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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I ran into this tweet yesterday from MS_Bloggers:

''About MS: Learning Increases Myelination: Researchers at Oxford have proven that, when people learn a new.. http://tinyurl.com/lyshof "

@MS_Bloggers Fabulous news, but why aren't I seeing it? (Recently laid off, back to college yet again...) Or maybe I'd be worse off...

It was actually pointing to an little tiny piece [ http://ms.about.com/b/2009/06/18/learning-increases-myelination.htm ] at about.dom by Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D. which basically said less that I could on the same subject without pretending I'm anything other that somebody who'se seen my own MRIs.

So of course that started me thinking on how much money and just fuss is being made by regurgitating trivia of dubious distinction.

---- "Lazy Tuesday" by: "KCentric" http://www.kcentricity.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Lazy" by: "Leiv Reed" http://www.myspace.com/leivreed

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Lazy Loser" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/

Thesis

Like I said in the feedback segment, I am exploring just how much the medical world has learned since I was diagnosed, and why, and how much is just hand-waving, supposition and flat-out BS.

I'm sorry to employ a Hagelian dialectic technique as a point of view, (the 19th century form of exposition of thesis, synthesis conclusion,) and twist it into what surely must sound like a screed, but this is the kind of patent nonsense up with I will not put. (And the last sentence, lifted from Winston Churchill, should tell you that there is not much up with which I don't put.)

---- "Lazy Bones" by: "B.D. Lenz" http://www.bdlenz.com/

"Synthesis:"

In learning about our disease we need to put on our hip-waders and venture out into a swamp of supposition, unknowns masquerading as facts, logical fallacies that say that naming something is the same as finding a cure, and mystics who leave it up to the vagaries of the random smiting by the elder gods.

I think we can dismiss the elder gods at a single glance since MS doesn't spare anyone based on religious belief. If you're alive, you're brain is fair game regardless of who it bows to, or doesn't as the case may be.

Back in the mid-eighties when I was diagnosed using a lumbar puncture and a at the time brand new PET scan, we really didn't know much about the working of the brain, (not even the mind, but the brain, the fundamental carpentry which served as its scaffolding.)

We had names for the features found in the undifferentiated grey goo that fills the void between our ears, but that's really not the same as knowing what the heck any of it did, why or how.

I can refer you back to an episode five shows  ago (msb-0361) which told you about the the five types of glial cells.

What I can't find out very easily is when the discovery and naming of the different glial cell types came about.

I suspect that the use of Latin and Greek obscures that fact that the types were unknown ten years ago.

Wilder Penfield and his crude brain mapping experiments at the MontrÃal Institute of Neurology in the nineteen-thirties had begun to unravel the mysterious skein that overlays itself atop that carpentry.

The functioning of the brain was being elucidated painfully slowly by chance, accident and mishap, since autopsies don't tell you much about living people.

The treatments for MS have all arisen from the study of AIDS.

They're crude but effective, and that's pretty much all we're getting from big pharma, so suck it up.

Its going to be a race for your pocket book using modifications on the systems of delivery from now on.

The delivery mechanisms are going to go from Injections, to ingestion, to inhalation.

The drugs themselves won't be a cure. That's too hard to do and requires to much time.

The curative discoveries will come from geneticists and epigeneticists.


---- "Lazy" by: "Francis Collete" http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj

Conclusion:

The overall outlook for MS treatments is mixed.

There will be no cures but the treatments will get more effective, until things really change under the onslaught of medical knowledge.

Lets hope our progeniture may never know first hand about demyelination.

The reporting of issues related to MS will be quieted then.

No more articles of Latinate bafflegab, no more futurama pronouncement of "In the coming decades ...", no more scary-slash-tear-jearky appeals to your pocket books by someone with a perfect smile, a perfect body and total lack discernible empathy.

Unfortunately, that will take time, money and research into fields not yet even dreamt of by people with more energy than I've got.

---- "Lazy girl" by: "The Bank" http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Lazy Tuesday"
 by: "KCentric"
 http://www.kcentricity.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy"
 by: "Leiv Reed"
 http://www.myspace.com/leivreed
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy Loser"
 by: "Lima Charlie"
 http://www.limacharliemusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy Bones"
 by: "B.D. Lenz"
 http://www.bdlenz.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy"
 by: "Francis Collete"
 http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lazy girl"
 by: "The Bank"
 http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=493431# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0365 Its not all about me you know http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=492896#
YouTube videos

Hooverphonic - Mad About You
..


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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Its not all about me you know.

I started this podcast with two things in mind at least:

The first was to relieve the absolute media vacuum about MS and the products that makes our lives easier.

The podcast is mainly about you, because if you're listening to me, you most probably have MS.

I want to be a vehicle for information in a non scary way about all the things people out there doing things and making for us MSers.

And it has started with my finding two sponsors.

Yes I'm flogging product but I've actually tried the stuff out first so I can honestly report on its quality.

I actually own some of these T-Shirts and i can report that they're good stuff.

The CADDI is also necessary stuff and its well made.

The second thing was to do well by doing good. I'm not in the lest ashamed of wanting to make a buck. I need to live too.

---- "Song About You" by: "The Cartwheel Club" http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub

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"

---- "Crazy About You" by: "DAVID MILLER" http://www.davidmiller.us/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of  off  every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Thinking About You" by: "Magdalena Konefal" http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal

"Thesis:"

I missed monday, AND I KNOW IT, thank you.

ComCast has been a real Yo-yo. Both the company and, I hate to call it so but, the service.

Sadly, I HAVE to use them exclusively because cable companies have a geographic monopoly and Verizon FiOS REFUSES to come into this area.

Why that is, like, we don't know, eh?

[...ribersack-a-fraglesack-a-ribersack-a-fraglesack...arrrgh...]

I have spare computers, spare drives, spare cables, spare mikes, a spare console, a wireless virtual private network and a cabled one.

I have a UPS which will give me two hours and seven minutes of power if the building power goes dead.

I have ubiquitous redundancy, all over, everywhere...

I only have a single point of failure in my house in my house and that's my internet connection.

Of course, that's the one that picks that day to go dead, then live, then dead again, then... Grrr!!!!

----

Now where was I?

Oh yes, its not all about me.

Its "all about you".

---- "All about you" by: "Luman" http://www.myspace.com/denilsson

"Synthesis:"

Like the song said, it is 'All About You".

The reason its not all about me, is that its all about helping us all with the products that other people produce to make our lives better.

Now my sponsors aren't makers of products that we need yet, but its starting.

When I can recruit the company that make my cane to sponsor me, I will do so with great delight.

The same with whatever you're using right now that you feel might be of help to somebody else.

I'm admittedly rough on shoes but I don't really suffer from the "foot drop" problem that I have seen ads for, so do they work? Which one are you using? Can you recommend it/them?

That's one for the feed forward segment.

----

Here's another one, but it could be for the feed me segment:

"The  Courage Center" [ http://www.couragecenter.org/index.aspx ] is an organization which takes care of the needs of plenty of people, such as those with MS.

They're located in Minnesota, in and around Minneapolis.

While that's only a small footprint on the planet, this podcast goes where ever the internet goes, I am sure that some of their people, both staff and service providers as well as their service clients, are using the internet right now.

While I am not claiming to provide a complete advertising solution for them, I am a portion of that solution in ways that the former media never could be since those media were burdened with production and delivery costs that were orders of magnitude greater than that of the internet.

If they wanted to reach the Mers in the Minneapolis area, i've got/had some.

If they wanted to reach MSers in the Minnesota area, I've got/had some.

Look at the map on my MSBPodcast.com Wiki. I've been in peoples' ears all over the planet.

And, to tell you the truth, that the part of this podcasting that always gives me the giggles.

---- "All About You" by: "Shemekia Copeland" http://www.alligatorrecords.com/

Conclusion:

I will readily admit that when I started this little adventure, it was all about me.

I felt hard done by. I had survived September 11 and one of my fellow workers hadn't.

He was a great guy and nobody deserved to in a blaze of Osama Bin Laden's Arab Street theatre. Nobody ever deserved to go that way.

I had got away from and with my MS for almost twenty years until reality reared up in my path and dropped me with a roundhouse kick to the crotch.

I felt like crap, wounded, harried and unexpectedly ashamed.

The US is Ultra Competitive, not ultra conservative. It weeds out the weak with ruthless efficiency, regardless of what it ultimately costs them.

"Look at ME!" seems to be the operant meme.

But that only lasts until the next distraction.

And that is why I am trying to distract you, while I inform you.

But enough about you.

---- "Not Another Song About You" by: "Tris McCall" http://www.trismccall.net/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Song About You"
 by: "The Cartwheel Club"
 http://www.myspace.com/thecartwheelclub
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Crazy About You"
 by: "DAVID MILLER"
 http://www.davidmiller.us/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Thinking About You"
 by: "Magdalena Konefal"
 http://www.myspace.com/magdalenakonefal
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"All about you"
 by: "Luman"
 http://www.myspace.com/denilsson
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"All About You"
 by: "Shemekia Copeland"
 http://www.alligatorrecords.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Not Another Song About You"
 by: "Tris McCall"
 http://www.trismccall.net/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:40:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=492896# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0364 Things are starting to heat up http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490893#
YouTube videos

Glenn Frey - The Heat Is On (Live 1992)
..

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

One of the advantages of using the wiki, or even just using LibSyn's blog roll, is that the shows are evergreen, meaning that the shows stick around as long as I can keep up the payments.

I just spoke with my professor and we're going to get all kinds of crap sorted out before the school's fall term when the usual suspects gets back from, for the lucky ones, trying to replenish their  pocketbooks or for the unlucky, or very lucky ones a summer of indolence and sloth.

One of the advantages of being the Marketing director is that I get to run all these promotional ideas and all these money making schemes by him.

I'm sure that there something that can be worked between the school and BarbCo so that we can use either blank sleeves, or sleeves pre-stamped with the WSPC logos and she can keep on giving to the charities.

---- "8-Bit Heat" by: "Adhesion" http://evilresidence.com/adhesion

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"

---- "Midnight Heat" by: "TWiG" http://www.myspace.com/twigsbeats

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.

They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.

I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)

I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.

---- "Heat" by: "Lance Wing" http://www.lancewing.com/

"Thesis:"

I often have a hard time with the heat.

The mental image of my body outline seems to get looser leading me to "rattle around in my somatic cage" which causes a lot of spilt whatevers, trouble getting up and getting to places, and generally being a spaz.

In the coming months I will be hugging the AC.

---- "heated" by: "Homeliss Derilex" http://www.myspace.com/homelissderilex

"Synthesis:"

I have often wondered why I become, uh, less defined when the heat is on but since it happens, I just go with it and cope as best I can.

Luckily I don't have to go outside much when the sun is out.

I suppose it has something to do with muscle relaxation and the need for greater neurological control to maintain muscle tone.

I will be engaging in late day activities and becoming vampiric in my habits, staying out of direct sunlight.

Maybe I'll even start to watch old shows of "Forever night" on Hulu [ http://www.hulu.com/forever-knight ] or something similar.

Watching "From Dusk Till Dawn" with Quenton Tarentino" [ http://unlockhulu.com/?p=634 ] ought to get me in the right mood.

The beginning of that film is pretty intense but it settles down to mere murder and mayhem, until the last half hour.

Then it gets intense again... (Guess who loves Robert Rodriguez, [undoubtedly ably aided by Quentin Tarantino. :-])

---- "The Heats To Blame" by: "Casey Desmond" http://www.caseydesmond.com/

Conclusion:

The loss of definition of my mental image of my self, the loss of "soma", is one of the most annoying things about my MS.

I hate becoming spastic just because its warm outside.

---- "New York City Heat" by: "Dead Heart Bloom" http://www.deadheartbloom.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"8-Bit Heat"
 by: "Adhesion"
 http://evilresidence.com/adhesion
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Midnight Heat"
 by: "TWiG"
 http://www.myspace.com/twigsbeats
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Heat"
 by: "Lance Wing"
 http://www.lancewing.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"heated"
 by: "Homeliss Derilex"
 http://www.myspace.com/homelissderilex
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The Heats To Blame"
 by: "Casey Desmond"
 http://www.caseydesmond.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"New York City Heat"
 by: "Dead Heart Bloom"
 http://www.deadheartbloom.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490893# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0363 Home http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490016#
YouTube videos

Living with Multiple Sclerosis:
..

Link to video "Home"  [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU ]

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Te first video that accompanies this post is from Chris Sheridan. More on Mr Sheridan later in the feed forward segment.

The second video that accompanies this post is in HD (if you getting this in iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image and I'll take you there right now [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU ])

Its got some of the most beautiful aerial cinematography I've ever seen.

I watched it in HD on the home/office laptop and most of the footage is absolutely stunning.

It ends well too.

I agree with the conclusion of the movie: "Its too late to be pessimistic."

Its not an embed because that wasn't an option. You've got to go to Google to watch it.

---- "Home" by: "WAZ"  

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"

----

I just came across a tweet on Twitter that immediately caught my attention.

Chris Sheridan, a.k.a @ mswithnofear is an MS blogger who seems to be my kind of person.

He has a video on YouTube (at the front of this post or you can click right now [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joocCR0u6U ])  that tells you to go to his site and download his ebook.

So I've just downloaded his free ebook from his site. [ http://www.mswithnofear.blogspot.com/ ] and it all makes sense.

I'm trying to line up an interview with him.

I  detect a kindred spirit in his "can do" "full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes" attitude.

I wish that this book had been around back in 1985 when I was diagnosed.

Best of luck to him.

---- "Home" by: "Degrees" http://www.myspace.com/degreestranas

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]

What the picture doesn't say however is that the the sleeve of the CADDi is customizable.

I'm going to try to get St Peter's College to carry it with their school logo on it.

The same thing goes for WSPC, the school's radio station.

I'm also going to pitch it at WFMU.org which i where I'm currently interning fr Mr. Doughlas Rushkoff [ http://rushkoff.com/ ] and at WBAI.org as promotional items to give away on fund raisers and the like.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Home" by: "Great Northern" http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com/

"Thesis:"

I'm on again for a course on digital recording at school.

I'm also taking my vinyl and media shifting it to CDs and MP3s.

I should end up with a honking huge iTunes library. My music collection will end up almost filling a 320GB drive with over 20,000 items, continuous play time is going to run to maybe a couple of months

You can look forward to the next 400 shows recorded during the school semesters being made up of the results my media shifting.

Part of the reason is that I can get away with it because the school's licensing agreements.

This podcast is sort of under the radar while I'm in school, part of WSPC web streaming my show, so I can play anything.

---- "Home" by: "Oswald" http://www.oswaldtheband.com/

"Synthesis:"

I'm listening to a podcast of "The Wall Street Journal This Weekend" as I type this, not for financial news (in my case finance is very simple, how poor have I gotten today?) but it is a sign of how fast the podcasting world is changing.

It is getting less insular as it moves from high-tech cults of personality like Adam Curry, Jason Calicanis, and Leo Laporte et alia, to non-profit broadcasters like NPR, PBS and WFMU  et alia, to corporate outfits like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other corporate communicators.

I just have to stay alive and podcasting while the production techniques of other mass media outlets are melting down under the onslaught of the desertion of advertising from mass media.

I have some ideas that when I find a job again, i will start advertising in Momentum though it will not be to convince MSers to tune in but instead to convince makers of stuff for MSers to use MSBPodcast to get their stuff in front of people.

Its the same old story, a chicken and egg situation.

---- "Home Soon" by: "Little Fish Big Pond" http://myspace.com/littlefishbigpond

Conclusion:

I'm all set for my summer recording course.

Wish me luck. I could use the marks, the skill or just a job in a recording studio.

---- "Take Me Home" by: "Noodlebox" http://1-21media.com/noodlebox

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Home"
 by: "WAZ"
 http://www.myspace.com/waz
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
 by: "Degrees"
 http://www.myspace.com/degreestranas
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
 by: "Great Northern"
 http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Home"
 by: "Oswald"
 http://www.oswaldtheband.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Home Soon"
 by: "Little Fish Big Pond"
 http://myspace.com/littlefishbigpond
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Take Me Home"
 by: "Noodlebox"
 http://1-21media.com/noodlebox
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=490016# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0362 Arrgh I'm a pirate (Its legal) http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=488827#
YouTube videos

Advance Patrol - "BlÃgula fÃrger"
..

Advance Patrol - Soy De La Calle
..

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Sorry about last Friday's show but I have to go out and try to find a job so I can't always be here doing this.

You know I'm sick of the record industry getting in the way of the artists.

I stumbled upon "Advance Patrol" while reading a screed about how the RIAA and its various European equivalents had tried to advance their trial against "The Pirate Bay" by claiming that artists were getting ripped off.

And they were, by the **AAs.

"Advance Patrol" hadn't heard a word of the **AA's law suit until it was happening and "didn't want any part of this."

They want to to get their music to be heard.

It does nothing for their appearances and live shows to have the music locked up in the vaults of the record company's lawyers.

To quote the site: [ http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/english-press-release-advance-patrol/ ]

"We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case," Gonza from Advance Patrol explains, "they used us as scapegoats in a fight in which we donât wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans.

"You cannot legislate away file sharing," Gonza says. "Those who fileshares our music are also those who appreciate it the most. "

"They are my friends, and friendship is something to be valued highly. Thatâs why weâre giving away El Futuro to the internet, to our friends."

---- "El Futuro" by: "Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

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"

---- "Mi Gerla" by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Soy De La Calle"  by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Thesis:"

The music this time is torn from the headlines.

Uh, what headlines?

There's no more newspapers worth mentioning and the ones that are left didn't have that on the front page.

Its another way we've got to get used to this new media, this incredibly affordable new media, this responsive, inclusive, cheap to produce and distribute new media...

This tripe is course is coming from the same oligopolies that think that they control everything and want you to pay  more and more for less and less. (You start out with something interesting but expensive and end up with a mirror being held to your face and you're on "The Biggest Loser" because you are the biggest loser.)

Their days are coming to an end simply because we're out of money.

They won.

Its all theirs.

Now screw off and leave us alone.

---- "Mi Vida"  by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

"Synthesis:"

I have noticed a lot of things in my fifty five years on this planet.

The most disturbing one I have seen is the perversion of the rule of law by every tin-pot dictator who thought that he was getting away with it and doesn't give  a crap about what is left after he's gone. (I use the male personal pronoun advisedly. Only a man, or an extremely grasping woman, can be that pig-headed, short-sighted and stupid.)

I refer to the clinically paranoid Stalin, Pol Pot,  Mao Ze Dong, Robert Mugabe  Kim Il Sung (who was named 'Eternal President" after he died,) and his son Kim Jong Il and every other sump for the people's money and energies

Now the pathetic pattern is being repeated here, not by our elected officials but by the captains of industry and the lawyers who are in collusion with them.

The music industry, which is the least productive and the most malignant force on earth, and which has been Hell bent on stamping out every innovation in sound reproduction since the invention of the player piano, is at it again, suing people for things that aren't infractions and corralling artists against their wills or keeping them in the dark.

But we now have a weapon which they can't dismantle because they need it even more than we do, the internet.

We are able to fly in under the radar of the oligopolists and wrestle our freedoms out from the very people who would shut us down using the technology that they themselves depend on.

---- "Eres Mia"  by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Conclusion:

I think that its about time we stopped having to pay a bunch of non musical lawyers for every piece of entertainment that reaches our ears, wether we want to hear the crap or not.

I think its about time we stopped paying for lawyers who try to make time stand still and to stop the tide from ebbing and flowing.

I'm all for the rule of law but I'm not for its abuse.

All laws should come with a sunset clause of 25 years, after which time they are either renewed or they are struck from the books and no corporation, of any kind, should be allowed own copyrights, of any kind.

Disney will survive and GM will not.

And we're ending off with one last number in Spanish by a group that's fundamentally Scandinavian.

Only in Europe could you get this kind of multi-cultural personal enterprise...

The videos at the front of this episode are definitely in Scandinavian. Advance Warning are a hip-hop band from MalmÃ, Sweden.)

Click on the image, go and grab the torrent and don't worry 'bout it.

Its a tool and you're doing nothing illegal, regardless of how you piss-off the RIAA, ASCAP/BMI  and the alphabet soup of leeches on music out there.

And because YOU are in control, you ARE in control and you don't even have to do it.

---- "Perdoname"  by: Advance Patrol" http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"El Futuro"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Gerla"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Soy De La Calle"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/ album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Mi Vida"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Eres Mia"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Perdoname"
 by: Advance Patrol"
 http://globalgonza.com/2009/05/31/download-el-futuro-from-the-pirate-bay/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 8 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=488827# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0361 We don't call them Reds now, do we? http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=487125#
YouTube videos

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The music this time is all coming to you from Siberia courtesy of "Ozone's Layer" which happens to be the English for the band's name: "Ozonovly Sloy."

Its 1:59 in the morning.

I've got insomnia, (or maybe I am getting back to my old "four hours a night" sleeping habits,) and right now I'm listening to podcasts of neuropod. [ http://www.nature.com/neurosci/neuropod/index.html ]

I'm a bit obsessive. (My wife just said: "A bit? A BIT? You're a freakin' lunatic! Turn off the light,  come to bed and get off the freakin' computer!" Yes dear... I'll just finish this paragraph, put my headphones on, and I'll just close the door shall I?[A nice way of saying: "I'm not"])

You can get NeuroPod from the iTunes Music Store by clicking on the image right now and I'll take you right to it.. [ http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=293009177 ]

I find myself fascinated by the brain and its functions.

Specifically these days I'm fascinated by the role of glial cells (More on this later in the podcast.)

I also listen to the Neurology podcast from the American Academy of Neurology but that one is a bit tougher.


---- "ZVONI... /Call Me.../" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

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"

---- "RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Thesis:"

The music is the Russian again, just because. I play a lot of it because I like listening to it.

I'm going to tell you about things that live in our heads other than the neurons.

In fact they seem to be the same as the traces in electronic circuits.

Everybody's caught up in the number of transistors and resistors and capacitors as indicative of the power of computers, but if its wasn't for the lowly traces between the so called active components in the circuits, you'd have nothing but a pile of dirty sand instead of a working computer.

Here now are the seven types of less sexy non-neuronal glial cells that make up more of our human brains than do  the neurons.

My source for this episode is primarily Wikipedia and its references. (And Google of course. [As we often  say 'round the house here: "Google knows all" {Its just that its a total dick about only being a purely "reactive" source of information.}}])

---- "BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

"Synthesis:"

In this episode, I am making up for my own ignorance of the inside of my own head.

As it turn out, the inside of my head is made up of a lot more interesting stuff than just undifferentiated gray goo.

Then again, the universe is made up of a lot more than just the the stars we see in the night sky.

I'm going to go from the largest cells by sheer mass to the smallest ones, out on the periphery.
 
First are cells that grow the fatty sheath called myelin. Those are called Oligodendrocytes and they make up about 75% of the mass.

Then come cell that anchor to their blood supply, regulate the chemical environment in the brain, build the "blood-brain" barrier, have their own chemical transmission system using calcium and IP3 (Inositol trisphosphate)Those cells are called Astrocytes and they make up about 17% of the mass.

Then come MIcroglia which  make up about 6.5% of the mass that's between our ears, being broken down into:
    â    Ependymal cells which secrete cerebrospinal fluid,
    â    Radial glia which serve as a scaffold on new neurons migrate,
    â    Schwann cells which are another kind of cell which are responsible for generating myelin
    â    Sattelite cells which surround neurons in sensory, sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia.
    â    Enteric glial cells (which are found in our digestive system.)

Actual neuronal cells make up about 10% of the gray goo that's between my ears (and elsewhere as it turns out. [Who knew that my stomach contains its own brain.])

---- "COLD WAR" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 
"Conclusion:"

Our brains are absolutely fascinating organs and the complexity of the neuronal circuitry, and the effects that arise from the complexity of the interconnection of all of the cells are extremely interesting since it results in the emergence of... us.

I take very great exception to the view of he dendrites and axons are the be-all and end-all of neuroscience.

The various sources I have examined over the years divide the brain into neurons and glial cells and hold that glial cells are nothing but the servants of the neurons.

Bullshit..

I want to clarify that MS is NOT a disease of of the brain.

Its a disease of the immune system which attacks the myelin sheath (which we just saw is produced by two glial cells, the oligodendrocytes and the Schwann cells.)

---- "ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/" by: "ozonoviy sloy" http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"ZVONI... /Call Me.../"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"RUSSIAN MORNING AFTER PARTY"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"FROM THE NORTH TO THE SOUTH"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"BRUSH-GIRLIE/SADO-MASOCHISM GIRL/"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"COLD WAR"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"ON THE VERY BRINK OF SKY /KAMCHATKA/"
 by: "ozonoviy sloy"
 http://www.ozonoviy-sloy.narod.ru/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=487125# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0360 Making enem, uh, friends across the world. http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=486593#
Theme Song to Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Theme Song to Mister Roger's Neighborhood:
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Theme Song to The Peanuts (Linus and Lucy)
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Theme Song to The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Theme Song to Mission: Impossible
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Theme Song to The Twilight Zone
..

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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The video's this time are all from the golden age of TV.

Of course this starts with Alfred Hittchcock and ends in "The Twilight Zone" but that's because I've had an extremely wyrd weekend.

The kind of weekend that serve as the foundation for books, of applied psychology.

But to keep my sense of humor I'm listening to the podcast of "A Prarie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon"

Podcasts have really gone in different directions since I got into them in February of 2006.

I'm NOT complaining.

All these heavy hitters are just legitimizing what I knew in my gut years ago.


---- "Breaking my heart" by: "Marie Crehan" http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan

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"

---- "Blackheart Blues" by: "Melissa Forbes" http://www.melissaforbes.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues" by: "Plastic Soul Band" http://plasticsoul.jp/

"Thesis:"

Here I go again boring my listeners with talk about the new media but you're my sounding board and you keep me grounded. (I "hear" your comments when I get too far off the beam. Some of you are definitely not shy about telling me I'm quote, "Full of it" unquote.

The last show left people with the impression that I didn't think much of the MS International Federation, or at least of their advertising agency.

I DO think highly of them and that's why I don't want to see thing running afoul.

---- "My Heart" by: "flattstreet" http://www.flattstreet.ca/

"Synthesis:"

Peer Baneke of the MSIF replied to me.

HE wants to see things running smoothy as well.

There is a common bond between our two global organizations. Apart from the obvious, I mean.

His is trying to bring some global coordination to the admittedly medical and non-commercial endeavors of the local MS societies all over the world,

Mine is dedicated to bringing something entirely different to my world-wide internet audience, namely a sense of normalcy for us all, hearing about the therapies, goods and services and products that could improve our day-to-day lives.

We will be continuing our conversations because we have much to offer each other.

It turned out, it wasn't an agency. Its actually being done in-house by someone who's not in the media industry.

---- "Kind Hearted Woman" by: "Johnny Nicholas" http://topcatrecords.com/
 
"Conclusion:"

So I went from a rant over ineffective communications to a collaboration.

Let be a lesson to me.

---- "Crippled Heart Blues" by: "Lana Martino-Smith" http://www.lanamartinosmith.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Breaking my heart"
 by: "Marie Crehan"
 http://www.myspace.com/MarieCrehan
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Blackheart Blues"
 by: "Melissa Forbes"
 http://www.melissaforbes.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Lonesome Hearted Woman's Blues"
 by: "Plastic Soul Band"
 http://plasticsoul.jp/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"My Heart"
 by: "flattstreet"
 http://www.flattstreet.ca/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Kind Hearted Woman"
 by: "Johnny Nicholas"
 http://topcatrecords.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Crippled Heart Blues"
 by: "Lana Martino-Smith"
 http://www.lanamartinosmith.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Mon, 1 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=486593# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0359 Beautiful Day http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=485090#
YouTube Beautiful Day:
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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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

Yesterday was the first World MS Day.

I discovered that in an email in my inbox yesterday afternoon.

What the hell kind of event promotion is this?

By the time "anybody" could find out, the day's over...

I know for next year but ... jeesh.

How the hell do they get any participation?

People were just discovering this too, as I could tell by the low number of followers on twitter.

More on this later in the episode. Suffice ti to say that that execrable campaign is why this episode is 24 hours late.

I threw away the episode I had prepared, flung it at the freakin' wall, and created this episode instead.
 
---- "The First Time" by: "Audio Spaghetti" http://www.myspace.com/audiospaghetti

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"

---- "First Run" by: "Jon Schmidt" http://jonschmidt.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "First Date" by: "Danko Jones" http://www.dankojones.com/

"Thesis:"

I love finding out about things on the very day that they're happening.

What is this?

Planing to fail by failing to plan?

The FIRST thing you learn about promoting an event is to get the word out in time for people to react.

This was the equivalent to getting a reprieve from the governor half a day after the feakin' lever's been pulled.

And twenty seconds on the news after the event has happened earlier that day is definitely NOT it.

For event promotion, the news is,not the right name for it, its the "olds"

That, at best, is PR and that serves to build a brand, not to advertise an event.

---- "First Contact" by: "Specimen 37" http://www.specimen37.com/

"Synthesis:"

I am going to read you a tweet from someone who thought it referred to something else:

"thought that World MS Day.org was an anti-microsoft day, after looking at some tweets. Need a rest :/"

Microsoft. MS. Get it?

That's some truly execrable promotion.

That tells me that this World MS Day promotion was probably thought of by somebody who doesn't know squat about marketing and certainly doesn't know diddly about how to host a event promotion.

Actually it was probably thought up by some intern who's working the "Charity Desk" at some advertising firm.

They only ever checked if the kid was screwing up, but they never checked if the kid was doing what was required and necessary.

Okay, I'm here to prevent this from happening to the next media event.

Lets get at least one term out of the way so we can all be on the same page.

In this case, its page 758 of "Advertising and Promotion" by George E Belch and Michael A. Belch, ISBN: 978-0-07-310126-2 [ http://www.amazon.com/Advertising-Promotion-Integrated-Communications-Perspective/dp/0073255963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1243458632&sr=8-1 ]

I know its expensive, like $135, but a professional should know what's in it.

Promotion is the "coordination" of all 'seller-initiated'  efforts to set up channels of information and persuasion to sell goods and services or to promote an idea.

The Multiple Sclerosis International Federation and its member MS societies for any individual, group and organisation involved in the global MS movement, are selling the idea of an event called."World MS Day",

One of the best blog posts about promotion of an event, as opposed to event promotion, is by Stephanie Booth [ http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/14/5-lessons-in-promoting-events-using-social-media-back-to-basics/ ]

Go and read her blog entry. You'll see what a half-hearted, half-assed effort this World MS Day was.

Basically, it says, in French, with lots of English translation later on in the blog entry for the intellectually challenged, that promoting these events takes TIME and EFFORT.

What you get from this absolutely "half-past-too-late" effort is an expensive waste of your charity donations.

There are lots of ways for promoting your global efforts, and they did employ some of them, after a fashion and way too late.

The overall endeavor at coordinating the work of people, firms, government agencies and NGOs and

the work in meshing the various media including broadcast, (meaning the national media,) the local outlets, television, radio, newspapers and other print media,)

and the labors in getting coverage from the internet media, (using sites like Hufffington Post, or Digg.com, or by recruiting blogs, podcasts, video podcasts and the like)

was utterly PATHETIC.

Its MS people.

Do a friggin' google search for "Multiple Sclerosis Blog" and get in touch with the people about a campaign you want to run.

Don't wait until the day of the friggin' event and expect people to suddenly rise magically up to help you, like Aristotle who thought that bugs arose spontaneously from mud.

It doesn't work that way people. This is real life.

I've already been smacked in the friggin' face by a heavy shovel called MS.

Don't throw dirt in my face, using your own ignorance and ineptitude to add insult to injury.

---- "The First" by: "LOB Tech Tones" http://www.lobtechtones.com/
 
"Conclusion:"

The MS society here in the 'States and the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation get a big FAIL on promoting the World MS Day.

Lets hope they get their act together next year because they obviously didn't do that this year.

This freaking' mess, well, it stunk.

I rate the effort as worse than amateurish, worse than dilettante-ish, worse that ignorant and uninformed.

I rate it as a waste of good money and there ain't none us got money to waste.

---- "first and last" by: "theStark" http://thestark.com/

Outro

----

Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"The First Time"
 by: "Audio Spaghetti"
 http://www.myspace.com/audiospaghetti
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"First Run"
 by: "Jon Schmidt"
 http://jonschmidt.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"First Date"
 by: "Danko Jones"
 http://www.dankojones.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"First Contact"
 by: "Specimen 37"
 http://www.specimen37.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"The First"
 by: "LOB Tech Tones"
 http://www.lobtechtones.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"first and last"
 by: "theStark"
 http://thestark.com/
 album: "none"
 via: 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:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


----

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
]]> podcasts Thu, 28 May 2009 16:12:00 GMT http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=485090# Charles-A. Rovira No msb-0358 What's Happening? http://msb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=483741#
YouTube The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
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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.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the appropriate button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I love these videos like the one that accompanies this episode.

Its about the Hubble Deep Field Camera.

Talk about taking the long view.

I could have run with another which was about taking the odds of something bad happening, and odds are if you're listening to this you'd already beaten the odds and know full well crap happens and know it happened to you.

Its about the theory and practice of risk assessment that was never applied under the last administration.

We all know what that led to:
â global economic melt down,
â rancor at undeserved bonuses that equal the combined GPD of several small backward nations, like Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, and the like,
â a deep recession that seems to be depression, I lost my job and that's enough to depress anybody, and punctuated by perfidy, (or do you like being screwed by Bernie Madoff and sociopaths of that ilk?)
â global terrorism from a small band of suicidal/homicidal psychopaths, one of which is still occasionally taking up broadcasting space and time, oh, and some angry shit from "Al Queda" too.

---- "Happenstance' by: "Torley on Piano" http://torley.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Happening Again" by: "Roche Limit" http://www.rochelimit.ca/

Feed Me comes third, so...

I now have TWO sponsors.

I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.

Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.

The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.

It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.

If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.

----

The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]

I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,

I'm wearing one right now.

The one by Mark Carpenter that says "Its the little things in life..." [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-336/Little-things-by-Mark/Detail ]

Dang but it looks good.

I love black-and-white photography.

That sort of explains some of the posters and art hanging on the wall around here.

----

I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.

Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks, without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing, from spilling your drink.

I'm wondering how to attach it to a wheelchair. but I don't have one so I've got nothing to experiment with.

I'd probably sling it over the handles in the back and be able to retrieve it from there.

As I told you in the last episode, I am breaking with my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

The CADDI is for non MSers but it could/should be for us too.

---- "I Never Thought it Could Happen" by: "nathan timothy" http://www.nathan-online.com/

"Thesis:"

This episode starts with a question: "What's Happening?"

I think we all could/should/would ask he question far more assertively, given how slowly things really happen.

The pace is part of the problem, of course.

Once an episode or exacerbation is past, the human instinct is to blot the surreality of the temporary sensation, or the loss of sensation that was brought to our attention, or the loss of control, or the tremor or spasticity.

---- "Things Happen Fast" by: "Fuzzy Logic" http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44

"Synthesis:"

Human memory is very selective, or let me restate that another way, human recall of memory is very selective.

We may be able to recall the smooth complexion and freckled face of the red haired young doctor-to-be who admitted us to the hospital all those years ago, but we don't let the memory intrude upon every waking moment of our lives after that.

And the previous sentence is plural because I'm sure she admitted lots people during the same period. Each of us will carry his or her own memories of the event.

There are a great many ways that MS can express itself; as many ways as there are nerves for the disease to attack.

The problems come from the confusion that arises with attempting to cure the reported symptom, say in Montel Williams case "My feet are burning", which any physician worth his salt would treat with anti-fungal remedies, which would be entirely useless since the actual problem may be a patch of myelin scraped off the nerve anywhere along the path from the feet to the brain.

That is one of the problems with MS.

Its a disease that affects people in way that challenge the thinking capacity of most medical personnel.

Its a topological disease, affecting the transmission of signals throughout the central nervous system and the brain, when or while we are forced to report our symptoms topographically, on the surface of things.

Just to make things, we can't even describe the triggers to the causes of the effect we can actually report on to the doctors who ask us "Where does it hurt?"

In my case, it doesn't even hurt (thank heavens.)

---- "It Can Happen To You" by: "Creamy.dk" http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1
 
"Conclusion:"

It started  with a moment of "What's Happening?" for me in Mr Miller's history class, lord, so many years ago... I wasn't even sixteen.

As I just got back from shuffling to the store to get us things to celebrate Memorial Day with, I heave an inner sigh at memories of how fast and effortlessly I used to dance around life.

If I could take a single lesson back to my younger self, it would be it would be to relax.

Stress causes a weakening of the immune system to disease, but it them comes back with a friggin' vengeance, and that sucks.

And to eat more duck.

I hate ducks.

Specially since I love the taste.

All, and I do mean ALL, flue viruses are bred in the gut of Chinese ducks and my MS triggers seem to revolve around strains of flue.

---- "make it happen" by: "luminous" http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/

Outro

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Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
 by: "Guy David",
 http://www.guydavid.com/
 no album,
 via personal contract

Song list

"Happenstance"
 by: "Torley on Piano"
 http://torley.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Happening Again"
 by: "Roche Limit"
 http://www.rochelimit.ca/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"I Never Thought it Could Happen"
 by: "nathan timothy"
 http://www.nathan-online.com/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"Things Happen Fast"
 by: "Fuzzy Logic"
 http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylogic44
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"It Can Happen To You"
 by: "Creamy.dk"
 http://www.myspace.com/creamydk1
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

"make it happen"
 by: "luminous"
 http://www.luminousrecording.co.uk/
 album: "none"
 via: music.podshow.com

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Photo Credits:

 All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)

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Books:

go to by books page at

 http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/BookRecommendations


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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

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You can leave me comments of the episode at //multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/ or

email me at charles (at) MSBPodcast.com
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Road Rage
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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.

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I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

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Feedback comes first, so...

I'm recording this in a studio on a day that is approaching 85ÂF. (30ÂC.)

Man, that's just too hot for me. I'm cowering here, next to the air conditioner and hugging it.

---- "Cowards All The Rage" by: "Ann Lynn" http://www.annlynnmusic.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 us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Red Red Rage" by: "the Radio Knives" http://www.myspace.com/theradioknives

Feed Me comes third, so...

The other day, I was tweeting my sponsor, (I LOVE saying that word, sponsor,) [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ] (the link is on the m4a right now, it you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the show and I'll take you right to his web page.)

I'm still in love with my t-shirts, I'm wearing one right now. The one of them that says I'm "guitarded." I bought two of those so the other one went in the wash. It looks like its holding up well to the detergents.

Its beige and soft and I'm just loving it.

I'll be able to confirm this in a few days but I may have another sponsor. I think so... Just watching the post.

The CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]

The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all. Its a caddy for carrying around your hot or cold drinks without risking life, limb, or whatever you're wearing from a spill,

This is just a good idea.

So good in fact that I am breaking my role of trying to carry ads or getting sponsors strictly from MS related products.

But, as a concession, I have got Barbara to look at her purchase page and she is offering a percentage of the unit price to go to a variety of charities, the MS Society being among those.

---- "Heathen Rage" by: "Corey Harris" http://telarc.com/

"Thesis:"

I was supposed to take a course on digital recording, which would have been an easy three credits for me, since I have lots and lots of practice, right?

Right?

Wrong!

Only the truly ignorant think they have nothing to learn.

I was looking forward to the course, but it didn't reach the desired number of stoonts, so I have plenty of time off to worry about the economy, the fact that i can't find a job and, I need distractions to take my mind off of my troubles.

A job would be a great way to do that.

---- "Sheeps rage" by: "JeSo" http://www.jeso.nl/

"Synthesis:"

I can't over estimate the importance of work,

 it doesn't ever have to be as lofty as meaningful or fulfilling work.

It just needs to be something that we can do to feel useful in the larger scheme of things.

We disabled people need to work just as much as the next person. Possibly more considering the extra costs of medicines, therapies and tre