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Listen: Dennis Miller, Todd Rundgren, London discussed on Our Favorite Albums
"By my co host jason. Hey how's it going today. We're going back to the excess eighties. And we're going to discuss a very unique concept album by british group. That had such a unique background in composition that it truly is one of a kind and today we are going to dissect nineteen eighty-six hallmark. Eighties album skylark. My ecstasy unique is a very good choice of words for the. It's weird right. It is really about the way. It was built the way that the album was put together. The wait was ridden. Oh yeah well all the all of the pieces to the puzzle and you lose some of this in the intro about bringing in the outside producer who in creamy from wrong here but todd rundgren was famous for producing guys like meatloaf i mean. Yeah right. I mean this right Like seventies cheese rock. Yeah and and i mean no disrespect. That's what it is. I mean i i'll piggyback off it with you. I would mean all disrespect. That's that style of music is awful. Yeah yeah that that that whole it was like suspended chords and kind of like augmented. I mean just like it was just rendered obviously had talent When you brought this album in and we were researching it. And i don't think there's really anything he's ever been associated with before this a good like this be that i probably liked. Yeah yeah i mean that's the guy's got talent but it's an interesting choice for the record company to go. Hey you'd be the right guy for these guys well. It's a funny thing that you say that because todd rundgren Power pop superstar of the seventies in by the way in case. You've never heard todd render. We're not focusing on todd rundgren. But at while i was here i figured i'd go ahead and give you an example. He's a big piece of the puzzle. So he said no he is. I should and here is his most famous song. You've probably heard this song on classic rock radio. I know for sure. Dennis miller used to use this song. At least it did once when i was kid kind of the late eighties when he was coming in the weekend. Update right all right. But this is todd render this phone call. I saw the light from nineteen seventy. Was it this in the johnny cocaine movie below. I seem to remember this being like i could be wrong. Because it's kind of this style. Seventies music all kinds of sounds the same. Sounds like it album actually is a really good help. If you like this style of music you might know this one. yeah just covered induce chills. Oh yeah it's not my at all kinda like just kinda wakey rock But it's pop at. Its whatever it was going on with bell bottom romance and yeah yeah there you go absolutely. It's totally that kind of stuff so once again like really strange choice. Yeah so let's let's talk about todd. Rundgren real quick Just so we can kind of be done with it. He did have. That breakout album that we just played from that was something anything from nineteen seventy two He had that song. I saw the light in. Hello it's me. The two songs that i just played albany also had a song in nineteen ninety-three that was pretty big called bang the drum all day. That's all yeah absolutely a complete whipping of song of whipping of a whipping of weapon yet. And i would even go so far as to say that. His production techniques were really overdone. Look for what for what i like. Music it just seemed like it was way over done. Sure i agree with that completely. But let's talk about the album's because he he was a pop star but he was really more well known as a record producer right His record you might not know that well but you mentioned meatloaf out of hell right. Which is that with. Jim stein and like it or love it or hate it. I would say hate it for me but it was a very very very popular album. I'd say what if i'm planning cornerstones for the for the seventies. I'm probably gonna make that a cornerstone because sure sure especially if that that genre which was so ubiquitously kind of think i may have lowered their ubiquitously piteously. So popular true really. Harnessing some of the drama kid type music That bad of hell the way it was composed and the way it was written by meat loaf in jim steinem lineman. Yeah the whole thing is like his whole persona was really theatrical theatre. Type stuff when you. I remember being a kid and like seeing the cover for bat. Outta hell's what is this is this is this is this is this is. This is going to be amazing. And then he gets on a terrible. What is happening. is that a piano. What is going on. He also did bad fingers straight up in in grand funk railroad's wearing american band sing along groovy says rock and roll off you. All three of those are huge in the seventies. Absolutely so as he transitioned out of the early success that he had As being actual performer in the end started getting into where he was actually doing production He was pretty well known as as a guy that could come in. And just kinda sav problems In do so very inventively and for cheaply in that's where we come with ecstasy ecstasy a quick brief history of of this ban there from swindon the the west country of england. And so i if you are in london and you turn your boat towards the southwest. You're looking at swindon. So you're on the thames. Obviously if you for some reason you were to drive swindon you would go through brixton. And that's where david bowie was from. Oh okay In these guys of ecstasy from swindon they spoke with west country. English accent if you want to know about west country english this is what the pirates spoke in so normally when we when we try to fake an english accent we always drop the ours right from from britain. We are in there but on the in if it has cau- of dropped are out in the west country they overdo the are so a pirate. Are they talking over there. And if you listen really close to the way that these s pronounced this. It's very rural very country. And so it's it's Considered kind of crude and a lot of these guys from this area. They would try to drop that accent really. Yeah that's interesting. I didn't know that. I x t c from swindon They were part of the seventies punk scene that they were really one of the The bands that really hit big especially in the uk. And they transitioned into the new wave movement right They were known for a very lively stage performance. Very very upbeat. Lots of energy around. Yeah there were four people in the band at one time. The singer the brilliant. The kind of the brain of everything is andy. Partridge and i don't know if you've if you've figured out through your your investigation of ecstasy. But andy partridge is a wacky fucking. Yeah yeah yeah. It seems like he was a terrible really part person to be in. A band was really hard young with asthma. Matter of fact he started a a decade-long valium addiction that he started off in nineteen eighty-four in part of his addiction to valium in his depression. Because of that they just stopped performing really. Yeah they didn't they stop being alive ban for while it they do. They start before we live in. Well i mean that happens. There's always the guy that just couldn't perform anymore for one reason. Another the begins stuck doing it but that's from a band that kind of made their name being alive ban. That's a that's a heart heartbreak to take it sure is But it's interesting that it happened that way so if if you think about bands that were huge that perform big and everyone loved And they stopped performing live.."
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By my co host jason. Hey how's it going today. We're going back to the excess eighties. And we're going to discuss a very unique concept album by british group. That had such a unique background in composition that it truly is one of a kind and today we are going to dissect nineteen eighty-six hallmark. Eighties album skylark. My ecstasy unique is a very good choice of words for the. It's weird right. It is really about the way. It was built the way that the album was put together. The wait was ridden. Oh yeah well all the all of the pieces to the puzzle and you lose some of this in the intro about bringing in the outside producer who in creamy from wrong here but todd rundgren was famous for producing guys like meatloaf i mean. Yeah right. I mean this right Like seventies cheese rock. Yeah and and i mean no disrespect. That's what it is. I mean i i'll piggyback off it with you. I would mean all disrespect. That's that style of music is awful. Yeah yeah that that that whole it was like suspended chords and kind of like augmented. I mean just like it was just rendered obviously had talent When you brought this album in and we were researching it. And i don't think there's really anything he's ever been associated with before this a good like this be that i probably liked. Yeah yeah i mean that's the guy's got talent but it's an interesting choice for the record company to go. Hey you'd be the right guy for these guys well. It's a funny thing that you say that because todd rundgren Power pop superstar of the seventies in by the way in case. You've never heard todd render. We're not focusing on todd rundgren. But at while i was here i figured i'd go ahead and give you an example. He's a big piece of the puzzle. So he said no he is. I should and here is his most famous song. You've probably heard this song on classic rock radio. I know for sure. Dennis miller used to use this song. At least it did once when i was kid kind of the late eighties when he was coming in the weekend. Update right all right. But this is todd render this phone call. I saw the light from nineteen seventy. Was it this in the johnny cocaine movie below. I seem to remember this being like i could be wrong. Because it's kind of this style. Seventies music all kinds of sounds the same. Sounds like it album actually is a really good help. If you like this style of music you might know this one. yeah just covered induce chills. Oh yeah it's not my at all kinda like just kinda wakey rock But it's pop at. Its whatever it was going on with bell bottom romance and yeah yeah there you go absolutely. It's totally that kind of stuff so once again like really strange choice. Yeah so let's let's talk about todd. Rundgren real quick Just so we can kind of be done with it. He did have. That breakout album that we just played from that was something anything from nineteen seventy two He had that song. I saw the light in. Hello it's me. The two songs that i just played albany also had a song in nineteen ninety-three that was pretty big called bang the drum all day. That's all yeah absolutely a complete whipping of song of whipping of a whipping of weapon yet. And i would even go so far as to say that. His production techniques were really overdone. Look for what for what i like. Music it just seemed like it was way over done. Sure i agree with that completely. But let's talk about the album's because he he was a pop star but he was really more well known as a record producer right His record you might not know that well but you mentioned meatloaf out of hell right. Which is that with. Jim stein and like it or love it or hate it. I would say hate it for me but it was a very very very popular album. I'd say what if i'm planning cornerstones for the for the seventies. I'm probably gonna make that a cornerstone because sure sure especially if that that genre which was so ubiquitously kind of think i may have lowered their ubiquitously piteously. So popular true really. Harnessing some of the drama kid type music That bad of hell the way it was composed and the way it was written by meat loaf in jim steinem lineman. Yeah the whole thing is like his whole persona was really theatrical theatre. Type stuff when you. I remember being a kid and like seeing the cover for bat. Outta hell's what is this is this is this is this is this is. This is going to be amazing. And then he gets on a terrible. What is happening. is that a piano. What is going on. He also did bad fingers straight up in in grand funk railroad's wearing american band sing along groovy says rock and roll off you. All three of those are huge in the seventies. Absolutely so as he transitioned out of the early success that he had As being actual performer in the end started getting into where he was actually doing production He was pretty well known as as a guy that could come in. And just kinda sav problems In do so very inventively and for cheaply in that's where we come with ecstasy ecstasy a quick brief history of of this ban there from swindon the the west country of england. And so i if you are in london and you turn your boat towards the southwest. You're looking at swindon. So you're on the thames. Obviously if you for some reason you were to drive swindon you would go through brixton. And that's where david bowie was from. Oh okay In these guys of ecstasy from swindon they spoke with west country. English accent if you want to know about west country english this is what the pirates spoke in so normally when we when we try to fake an english accent we always drop the ours right from from britain. We are in there but on the in if it has cau- of dropped are out in the west country they overdo the are so a pirate. Are they talking over there. And if you listen really close to the way that these s pronounced this. It's very rural very country. And so it's it's Considered kind of crude and a lot of these guys from this area. They would try to drop that accent really. Yeah that's interesting. I didn't know that. I x t c from swindon They were part of the seventies punk scene that they were really one of the The bands that really hit big especially in the uk. And they transitioned into the new wave movement right They were known for a very lively stage performance. Very very upbeat. Lots of energy around. Yeah there were four people in the band at one time. The singer the brilliant. The kind of the brain of everything is andy. Partridge and i don't know if you've if you've figured out through your your investigation of ecstasy. But andy partridge is a wacky fucking. Yeah yeah yeah. It seems like he was a terrible really part person to be in. A band was really hard young with asthma. Matter of fact he started a a decade-long valium addiction that he started off in nineteen eighty-four in part of his addiction to valium in his depression. Because of that they just stopped performing really. Yeah they didn't they stop being alive ban for while it they do. They start before we live in. Well i mean that happens. There's always the guy that just couldn't perform anymore for one reason. Another the begins stuck doing it but that's from a band that kind of made their name being alive ban. That's a that's a heart heartbreak to take it sure is But it's interesting that it happened that way so if if you think about bands that were huge that perform big and everyone loved And they stopped performing live..

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Sinhawalokanaya (සිංහාවලෝකනය -  Lion's Pride) is a 2011 Sinhala sports drama film written and directed by Suneth Malinga Lokuhewa. The film features Dilan Jay and Raini Charuka Goonatillake in the leading roles while Menaka Rajapakse, Sanath Gunathilake, Kumara Thirimadura, Mihira Sirithilaka, Kanchana Mendis, Pubudu Chathuranga and Cletus Mendis also play key supporting roles. The Sri Lanka cricket star, Tillakaratne Dilshan also played a supporting role.

Produced by EAP circuit cinemas, the film had music scored by Ravihans Wetakepotha while songs were composed by Ravihans Wetakepotha, Rookantha Gunathilake and Dilan Lamb. It was released in January 2011 and was a very big commercial hit in Sri Lankan Film History in that year. But it received critical acclaim for background score and the use of music and sound design while getting lukewarm reviews from Critics for the overall film direction. This is the 1150th film in Sri Lanka cinema.

Plot
Dhanuka Wickramasinghe is a popular Sri Lankan cricketer who is a fine allrounder, but started to fail in many occasions. The story begins in a hospital, where Dhanuka with hospital attendants carry an old man in a bed. After his continuous failures, Dhanuka started to regain his form at sudden instance and he was included in the Sri Lanka 2011 Cricket World Cup squad as well. Media starts to find what is behind him to gain quick progression. Therefore a journalist, Shenali comes for an interview with Dhanuka. He starts to explain what happened to him, and what changed him over last few months. But he says it will be hard to believe as well.

The story rolled way back to 28 September 1947, when Sri Lanka was a colony of British rule. Some young persons of Sooriyasiri village, play cricket, meanwhile some English wealthy people travel in a bus. They saw some rural Sinhalese play their own sport and went to challenge them for a match. Sinhalese only scored 35 runs and Englishmen won the match without giving any wicket. However, one Sinhala boy named Jangu challenges British that, another match will be held after three months and if Sinhalese won the match, British should leave the country, or if British won the match, Sinhalese people will work for them until death.

Jangu, with his friends starts to practice the game, but head of the village criticized them and wanted British to win the match, so his profession will be secured. However, after getting advise from village monk, they went to meet a powerful Swami called Yasomithra to take more advice about the game. Yasomithra gives three medicinal balls with a time machine called Thri Kaala Yanthra. By using the machine, the eleven players - Jangu, Cyril , Mohotha, Tikka, Ran Nayide, Kiri Nayide, Bindu, Muththu, Chanthuwa, etc. went to the future, where the destination was at Dhanuka's home.

Dhanuka understood the story and started to help these ancient young team. He, along with his team mates including Tillakaratne Dilshan, starts to train the team according to their capabilities. The team trained very well with modern batting, bowling and fielding techniques, which is unmatch with ancient strategies. Meanwhile, in the village in 1947, everyone starts to blame Jangu for his radical thoughts and criticize his parents as well. Village head ordered Jangu's father Jagilis to ask apology for British people. With all these incidents taking place, Hawadiya organize the children in the village to play for the match, due to the uncertainty of Jangu and crew for the match.

On the day when the match have to be played, Jangu and crew arrives at the right moment with Dhanuka for the match. Sinhalese batted first and made a total below 200. However, during the match, Jangu's love interest Samadari, who has taken poison, fell apart. The match finished first day and Samadari was taken for Ayurveda medicine. With all these incidents, Village head asks his son Cyril to involve in a match-fixing and Cyril teaches all the modern techniques to British. On the second day, British starts to take the game away from Sinhalese by scoring modern shots. They posted 333 on the first innings. Meanwhile, Cyril tries to kill Jangu later that night, but eventually Cyril was bitten by a snake. Jangu helped him for the cures and finally Cyril confessed his faults in the match.

However, in third day, Sinhalese batted and posted a lead of 135 or more for British to win. With one Sinhala player struck down by a beamer, Hawadiya got a chance to play the match. English took a good start, but with good fielding, they fell in quick successions. When last wicket is playing, Englishmen required only 2 runs to win, with one wicket in hand. English captain hit the ball a long distance, where Chanthuwa and Hawadiya both ran to take the catch. Both fell over, But Hawadiya stood with the ball in his hand. Sinhalese won the match and credit went to Dhanuka as well. Samadari healed at last credits and Dhanuka ended his thrilling story.

In the future, the old man in the hospital is revealed to be Jangu, who was the youngest of his squad and the last alive. He thanks Dhanuka for helping them to win the match, and takes his last breath.

Cast
 Dilan Jay as Jangu  (voiceover by Chaminda Sampath Jayaweera)
 Raini Charuka Goonatillake as Samadari
 Menaka Rajapakse as Dhanuka Wickramasinghe
 Sanath Gunathilake as Gam Muladani
 Kumara Thirimadura as Mohotha
 Sarath Kothalawala as Tikka
 Mihira Sirithilaka as Hawadiya
 Kanchana Mendis as Shenali Pieris
 Pubudu Chathuranga as Cyril
 Cletus Mendis as Jagilis
 Jayalal Rohana as Yasomithra Sami
 Seetha Kumari as Bindu's granny
 Palitha Silva as Heen appo
 Chinthaka Pieris as Ran Nayide
 Janaka Ranasinghe as Kiri Nayide
 Maureen Charuni as Magilin
 Dilhani Ekanayake as Subharath Manike (Samadari's mother)
 Kusum Renu as Dingiri Menike
 Damitha Abeyratne as Sirimal Ethana
 Gamini Hettiarachchi as Sube
 Ashen Manjula as Bindu
 Udayanthi Kulatunga as Silindi
 Tillakaratne Dilshan as Himself
 Darshan Dharmaraj as Muththu
 Wasantha Kumaravila as Waththuwa
 Sadani Sulakna as Pinchi
 G.R Perera as Veda mahaththaya

Production
Sinhawalokanaya provided many new faces to Sri Lankan cinema along with the legends already in the cinema to accompany for the first Sri Lankan cricket film. The main role is played by Dilan Jay, who is a US-based singer, who influenced his songs during North East war to enhance the courage of the people. Raini Goonatillake, who is the elder daughter of famous singers Rookantha Goonatillake and Chandralekha Perera who is USA based and also making the first steps in cinema. Former Sri Lanka cricketer and captain Tillakaratne Dilshan also took part for the film, which is his first in the silver screen. Menaka Rajapakse is a renowned television actor also made his debut in cinema with this film. The Soundtrack composed by Ravihans Wetakepotha received wide acclaim from the general audience and the critics. Many of the foreign actors also provided their contribution to the film.

In January 2011, original DVD of the film was presented to the President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Temple Trees.

Release
The film was released on 2011, prior to the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. This has influenced among the public due to that Sri Lanka being an ICC Full Member country and also one of the three hosts of the 2011 World Cup.

Soundtrack

The Soundtrack composed by Ravihans Wetakpotha won the best movie soundtrack of the year in Derana LUX movie awards 2011.

Awards
The Soundtrack composed by Ravihans Wetakpotha won the best movie soundtrack of the year in Derana LUX movie awards 2011. The Sri Lankan community in Hollywood appreciate the film in October 2011. The Asian Film and Drama Foundation, which is a Hollywood-based Sinhala cinema circuit awarded excellency awards to the film crew. Director Suresh Malinga Lokuhewa won Best Direction award and Best Film Award to two producers Pasan Chandrasekara and Ravi Hans. Two more merit awards was given to Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dishan who made a guest appearance and the main actor Dilon Jayasinghe.

References

External links
ක්‍රිකට් ගැන හැදුණු චිත්‍රපට පිළිබඳ සොයමු

2011 films
2010s Sinhala-language films

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Importance of Bonn Conference for Afghanistan
The much awaited 2nd Bonn Conference on Afghanistan was held on 5 December. Many have sought to downplay importance of the Conference also held to commemorate the 1st Conference at the same place 10 years ago when Afghanistan was liberated from the extremist clutches of the Taliban-Al Qaeda dyad that had ruined the country bringing it as some say right into the stone age. The very fact that analysts downplayed the importance of 2nd Bonn Conference suggested a major achievement for Afghanistan that it was no longer as critical an issue for the international community as it was 10 years ago and this despite the absence of Pakistan on one hand and the Taliban on the other. For Afghanistan thus the 2nd Bonn Conference could represent a signal that the tide to stability was certainly turning.
But coming to the Conference attended by about 100 countries and organisations 10 years after the first Bonn conference that set up the Karzai government, international delegates expectedly pledged full support to the Afghan government. There was almost near unanimity for supporting the country for another decade or more and to that extent the aims set for the conference have been largely achieved. The other aim of shifting focus from security to political and economic aspects may not have been evident given the grim security situation but President Hamid Karzai's assurance that his government would press on with efforts, briefly stalled by the High Peace Council head Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination, at pursuing peace with the Taliban were also welcome. Even though the participation of Pakistan and the Taliban would have added value the commitment of various regional players was most notable and should be encouraging.
With a number of conferences ongoing presently as well as in the subsequent years the 2nd Bonn conference may not have had the type of impact that the first had when the entire structure for Afghanistan was laid out. After 10 years when the institution and nation building process in the country is still underway but there is a road map that has been worked out by the international community as well as Afghans themselves the 2nd Conference may not have pleased the purists in the country who wanted some seminal or earthshaking developments. The Germans themselves may be disappointed but with two key players, Pakistan and Taliban both being absent there could not have been anything but a some what median result that was expected.
What is also noticeable is that consensus building on Afghanistan has now become a yearly process rather than a decadal one, thus Bonn is culmination of a series of conferences on the country in the past two years from London to Kabul to Istanbul and will be followed by one in Tokyo next year thereby indicating diplomatic path of a series of such events rather than expecting an all in one event.
Some have sited absence of Taliban as one of the failures of Bonn. Non participation of the Taliban in Bonn should be seen in the light of internal differences within the group rather than any blame on the Afghan government or the organisers Germany. It is well established that representatives of Taliban and the US had met in Qatar some time ago. Tayyub Agha, in charge of Taliban's foreign affairs was sent by Mullah Omar for a dialogue for exchange of prisoners. Germany had also made efforts through former Afghan Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef who however does not seem to have confidence of Mullah Omar. Meanwhile the killing of Mr Rabbani was a set back that led to a break off in negotiations that had gathered critical mass particularly with the Hekmatyar faction. However it is apparent that there were major differences between the three main blocks of the Taliban, the Hekmatyar, Haqqani and Mullah Omar groups thereby indicating that the talks did not progress further and petered off. Till a consensus emerges between the three factions there is unlikely to be any breakthrough in the reconciliation process.
While Pakistan did not attend the Bonn Conference, this should be seen in the light of the extremely sensitive public response to the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO attack on two Pakistani checkpoints in the border region on November 26. Seething anger on the streets which was a genuine expression of hurt may not have permitted the government to take any decision otherwise. The commitment by the country's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani as well as other representatives seems to be conciliatory.
The overall trend in the country's policy is however a cause of concern as if it wants to operate outside the paradigm of international diplomacy where killings of soldiers howsoever unfortunate and whatever be the internal repercussion would have to be taken in the stride and proceeded ahead rather than choosing to isolate itself. There are some apprehensions that Pakistan may turn out to be a pariah state as others such as North Korea and Iran, while these may be too simplistic assertions there would be a necessity to contain the contagion by ensuring that Islamabad remains inside the box of international diplomacy.
So the Bonn Conference may not have been an earthshaking event for many but it should be certainly be seen as another seminal landmark in Afghanistan's path to peace and prosperity.


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Personalities, Specialty Shows, Technical Staff
About WRGG
Greg Hoover "The Morning Show"
After devoting 39 years to the Greencastle-Antrim School District, in which he served in numerous positions, including Superintendent of Schools, Greg was part of a group of people that had a dream of returning local radio to the Greencastle-Antrim community. In June of 2016, their dream came true. In 1978, Greg faced one of those forks in the road and decided to go with the one that led him into education. The other road was radio, which he managed to keep his foot in the door by working part time until 2000. He has served at numerous radio stations in the area, but spent most of his time at WKSL, WIKZ and early on, at WEEO. Along with being a DJ, he has been (and still does) play-by-play broadcasting for numerous sports, as well as being the lead announcer for the Pennsylvania Cable Network's television coverage of the Cross Country state championships. He is married to Ronda Hoover and between them, they have seven children and six grandchildren. He was born and raised in Greencastle and is very proud to call Greencastle his home.
Bill Gore "The Morning Show"
Duped the "Royal Canadian" by his many fans, Bill comes to us from his native home somewhere in the vast country above us. Though he has been in the lower 48's for goodness knows how long, you can still catch a hint of the Canadian accent. If that doesn't due the trick, then his reference to hockey should. I mean, not many United States citizens actually talk about ice hockey, but Bill does. He vast knowledge of music, movies and history allows him to fit right in with all the other "know-it-alls" on The Morning Show. You can hear Bill on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays from 6:00 am to 7:30 am (an agreement with the Canadian Government restricts the number of hours he can be on the air) and from 6:00 am to 9:00 am on Thursdays and Fridays.
Mike Bock "The Morning Show"
After realizing his dream of becoming a bass drummer for a rock and roll band was just another failed dream, Mike turned his limited talents to radio. He went on the air on WRGG's The Morning Show on day number two (because he wasn't invited for day one). Remarkably, he has been there (well, off and on) ever since. Occasionally, he will bring the bass drum down from the attic and march around his back yard. Occasionally. He has many interest outside of radio, but none can be mentioned here.
Mary Bock "The Morning Show"
Mary's time on The Morning Show is limited by her work schedule (hey, someone in the family has to work!). Her main responsibility to the show is two-fold: (1) She has the almost impossible responsibility of getting her husband Mike out of bed to come into The Morning Show and (2) She has the almost impossible responsibility of reporting to the show the many mistakes made by the staff. And did we mention she also has a fulltime job?
Ethan Shank "The Moring show"
Ethan joined The Morning Show elite when he reluctantly signed up for an internship at WRGG. Though the internship is long over, he still returns to The Morning Show most mornings from 7:30 am to 9:00 am, despite pleadings from his parents to stop. A three-sport star in high school and a football recruit to Juniata College, many are complex why this seemingly successful young person continues his tenure on The Morning Show.
Ron Oliver "The Morning Show"
Not quite an "official" Greencastle native, "The Morning Show's" Ron Oliver has spent most of his 60 years in the Greencastle area. An "Army Brat" by birth, Ron and his family moved from Germany to town in 1958 and settled on South Washington Street , just a few houses down the street from Dr. Hoover. A 1974 graduate of GAHS, Ron was active in both sports and music. A five year "visit" to Arizona in the mid 1980's gave him the Southwest "bug" and has been calling him back for years. Ron and his wife Stacy look forward to moving back to AZ someday soon.Ron has been in some form of sales and/or customer service for over 36 years and in addition to the exorbitant amount of money he has made over the years, his favorite part of his career path has been meeting new and interesting people! Ron and his wife, "The Pipster", live in Antrim township and have three sons and three grandchildren. Ron hopes that "The Morning Show" listeners enjoy the show as much as the WRGG crew enjoy bringing it to them!
Jason Kabler "The Morning Show"
There is nothing that can be said about Jason than what's already been said. That said, Jason joins us every morning in the studio when he is in Greencastle performing. If in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where he supposedly lives with his (supposedly) finance, the Imaginary Carrie, he joins The Morning Show on Wednesday at 7:00 am for "Movies, Movies, Movies" and again on Friday mornings in the 7:00 am hour to present his weekly list of bad dad jokes.
In his spare time, he performs in front of live audience, singing his songs to make money. And begging, he does that, too, to make money.
Vernon McCauley "The Morning Show"
Vernon is one of the many "contributors" to "The Morning Show," with his segment on Thursday morning from 8:00 am to 9:00 am, cleverly titled "Thursdays with Vern, or Vern'sDay." He is famous around the Greencastle-Antrim area for his very clever catch phrase "reach out, touch a friend and tell them about WRGG, especially Thursday's when I am on The Morning Show from 8:00 am to 9:00 am." Many experts in the field of catch phrases believes this phrases to be way too long. But that hasn't stopped Vern. Vern is also the creator of the imaginary "Jacki" who also appears on The Morning Show on Thursday's during the 7:00 am hour. "Jacki" emerged from Vernon's very fragile early childhood growing up in the wilds of West Virginia, raised by West Virginia speaking wolves.
Ben Thomas Jr. "The Morning Show"
Ben is a Franklin County native growing up in the cities of State Line and Upton. In high school and college he worked at WKSL-FM radio. After college Ben pursued a law enforcement and municipal government management career spanning the past 37 years. Ben is the Manager of Cumberland Township, Adams County, and a retired police officer and current Mayor of Greencastle. He is married to Tina (Stockslager). Tina is semi-retired while continuing to work part-time for the past 37 years at Hagerstown ENT Associates. Tina and Ben live in Greencastle. Their daughter, Jen Everetts (husband Andy) have one daughter, Elizabeth Quinn.
Jackie "The Morning Show"
Dave Kipp "Mid Mornings"
My love for 50s and 60s music began when I was a teenager. I killed many 9-volt batteries in my transistor radio going to sleep listening to the Sunday night Oldie shows on great stations like WKBW Buffalo, WOWO Fort Wayne, and WBT Charlotte. The music plus listening to DJs like Dr. Don Rose of WFIL in Philadelphia lit the flame in me to pursue a career in radio. After a few years at WMCR in Oneida, N.Y. and WNOW/WQXA in York, PA, I decided to pursue a career in Information Technology (IT). In 1990 I was blessed to be a part of the handful of folks who stood up the Coast Guard's Operations Systems Center (OSC) in Martinsburg, WV. I retired from the OSC after 25 years. My community service includes past service on the GASD Board of Directors. Today, I continue being involved in my community through our church community, Ruritan, Old Home Week, and Greencastle's radio station; WRGG…93.7. I am blessed.
Garry Kline "Mid Mornings"
Wade Burkholder "Late Afternoons"
Kyle Swope "Mid Afternoons"
Chris Palladino "Mid Afternoons"
Chris, known at the station as "The Professor" due to vast knowledge of Rock and Roll, spends Friday mid-afternoons with you from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Not only does he bring you the best music of the 50's, 60's and 70's, but he will give you a little bit of the back story behind the music, allowing you to sharpen your trivia skills. And it's all for free! Chris also hosts three specialty shows on WRGG, "The Wax Museum," "Today in Rock and Roll History," and This Week in Rock and Roll History."
Hollis Zimmerman "Hollis Z – Saturday Mornings"
Hollis will astonish you with his depth of knowledge of music from the 50's, 60's and early 70's. He will give you interesting facts about the artists, and their music. He has a keen interest in the big variety of oldies that he plays on Saturday mornings. His love for the oldies music began at a young nine years old when he enjoyed the music playing his mother played around the house and in the car. The relationship that he had with the older generation, both family and friends was also an incentive. His friends call him "The Encyclopedia of Music" because he can you a song, the artist, record label, year of release, and other assorted trivia in an instant! Some of the oldies radio stations he would tune in to include: WICL in Martinsburg WV, WXDC in Berkeley Springs WV and WHAG in Hagerstown, MD. Hollis is currently attending Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. where he is studying radio broadcasting. He began his radio career at 1450 AM "The Source" in 2016.
He is very proud to be the "Young Man with the Golden Touch" and spin the oldies every Saturday morning here in Greencastle-Antrim and Southern Franklin County!
News, Sports, and Weather
Scott Douglas "Local News"
John Freeman "Local Sports"
After serving two years active duty in the U.S. Army, John attended Penn State University earning a journalism degree. Following graduation, he was a news reporter and anchor at radio stations in Sunbury and State College and a news reporter for WJAC-TV in their State College bureau office. In 1994 he moved to the Greencastle area to become the weekend news anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown. He changed careers after graduating from Shippensburg University with a B.S. in finance and an M.B.A. from Mount Saint Mary's University. John currently manages the Credit Underwriting Department for Middletown Valley Bank. John has lived in Greencastle since 1995 with his wife, Dr. Sandra Fink-Freeman, who owns and operates Greencastle Eye Care Center. They have two children, Benjamin and Jason. John and Sandy are also parents to one dog, Sadie, as well as two cats, Mazie and Ike. John Freeman is currently the morning sports reporter as well as a co-host for WRGG's two sports-oriented talk shows, The Word on the Street (Sunday) and Chalk Talk (Thursday). John also announces play-by-play for several Blue Devil high school sports.
Jim Vaughn "Staff Meteorologist"
A lifelong obsession, Jim has been recording weather observations since he received his first weather station as a 12 year old back in 1976. He later spent time as a storm chaser in Oklahoma in the late 1980s. Graduating from Penn State University in 1995, majoring in Meteorology, he became a contract Meteorologist for the National Weather Service at their Elkins, West Virginia weather office. In 1996 Jim accepted a position as a contract Meteorologist in Washington, DC for the NWS/FAA at Reagan Washington National Airport. He celebrated his 23 year anniversary at that weather station back in June. In 1997 Jim accepted a position with Verizon to provide weather forecasts on Verizon's weather phones in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, and Wichita, KS. He will celebrate his 22 year anniversary in these cities in March. In the early part of 2016 Jim created a company named NowCast Weather, a company that supplies on air weather forecasts for radio stations. WRGG was the VERY FIRST radio station to broadcast Jim's forecasts. As of July 2019, Jim's forecasts can be heard from Maine to California on 53 radio stations covering 38 states, Washington, DC and a small portion of Canada. Over 44 million people per day can hear a NowCast Weather forecast. But Jim's heart will always be with the station that gave him his first chance to mumble "The weather forecast for………….", the station that he can ALMOST hear from his hill top home in Ringgold, MD.
Specialty Shows
Lois Steichen "Around Your Community"
In the early '90's, Lois had an arts interview show on WSJS 600AM radio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A Minnesota native, Lois and her husband, Tom, and twin boys spent 35 years in Winston-Salem where she was a community theatre actress, singer and voice-over artist. Grandchildren brought Lois and Tom to Greencastle in 2012. Bringing you the local non-profit and government events comes naturally as Lois had a 15-year career as a Public Relations Director for visual and performing arts and history organizations. Collecting and disseminating information is what she does!
Chris Paladino "The Wax Museum," "Today in Rock and Roll History," "This Week in Rock and Roll History"
Chris Palladino is the host of The Wax Museum, Today In Rock and Roll History and This Week In Rock and Roll History, all of which run on a number of stations across the country. Chris does the Friday 12 noon to 3pm afternoons shift and contributes to The Morning Show on WRGG. He's been working in radio since 1979, plays guitar, bass and mandolin in local band Rumours and is a full-time electrician.
Lanny Carbaugh "Blue Grass Connection"
Lanny was born and raised in Greencastle and has worked in radio since 1954 starting as a go-for or Jack Geiger and Jay "Jaybird" Hanshaw at WAYZ in beautiful downtown Waynesboro. While in the U. S. Air Force in 1957 and 58 stationed in Japan, he broadcast on the local US FM radio WSDO, Sado Shima, or as they called it, "The Alcatraz of the Far East, High on Mt. Kimpo looking down on the world and you." With limited resources, he talked a good bit just to keep the broadcast line open and used a portable Philco record player with the speaker pointed at a live mike to broadcast music. He played Patty Page, Four Lads, and a couple of Country All Stars such as Grandpa Jones and Little Jimmy Dickens. The Air Force Times provided our news copy. WRGG is his first formal "on air" experience in broadcast radio. Tune in to Lanny on the Morning Show weekdays 6am to 9am and Blue Grass Connection Sunday evenings 4pm to 6pm.
Dan Hawthorne "Blue Suede Connection"
A radio personality from way back, from top 40 hits on WQCM in the late 80's to one half of The Really Really BADD Radio show in Ocean City, MD in the late 90's. Dan loves inspiring others with his life changing story, encouraging and letting everybody know you truly can get your life back. Behind the mic is where Dan belongs; entertaining, inspiring and sharing his love for Elvis along with putting a smile on faces by doing what he does best–live Radio! The man of PEACE. The man with a million voices–meet Dan Hawthorne.
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Patricia Garber "Blue Suede Connection"
Long time Elvis fan and fabulist, Patricia Garber, weaves her knowledge of the legend Elvis Presley into stories that connect with fan's across the globe. Patricia has been writing professionally for ten years and authored two successful books "Eternal Flame" and "Samantha's Secret" along with several short stories. Elvis Now Radio is her first venture into the radio world, but the subject alone makes her feel right at home–meet Patricia Garber
Mike Donald "On Track with Mike"
Mike Kershner "On Track with Mike"
Bill Taylor "50 years of Country", "When it was Live", "Journey Into Melody", "Memories"
Shawn Taylor "50 Years of Country"
Jen Vanderau "Everything Eighties"
Bill Cromwell "The Third Floor"
My love of classical music began with my parents and grandmother, listening to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade when I was a child. I sang professionally for four years with The Columbus Boychoir of Princeton, New Jersey, and that experience changed my life, especially in the realm of classical music. I've taught English to 8th graders for over 27 years and have two kids, a wife, and three cats. I realized my dream of producing and hosting a classical music program on the radio by creating The Third Floor, now in its fourth broadcast year. Classical music is an integral part of my life, and I'm happy to share my enthusiasm for the art form with listeners in the Greencastle-Antrim area . . . and beyond!
Dominic Brown "Veterans Straight Talk"
Tabernacle Choir
Antrim Brethren in Christ Church Church Program, Antrim Brethren in Christ Church "Message for Today"
Box of Blues
Greatest Hits U.S.A.
Otterbein U.B. Church "Today's Inspirational Thoughts"
Gospel Radio Favorites
"Rules Free Radio" with Steve Kaplan
"Chalk Talk" with Garry Kline and John Freeman
"All 22" with Ethan Shank
Mary Lee "Jukebox Jams with Mary Lee"
Linda Burkholder--Accounting
Jeff Baker--Engineering
Stan Schafer--Engineering
Rob Pearson--Technology
Marketing--Wade Burkholder
Director of Operations--Greg Hoover
Benjamin F. Thomas, Jr.
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aluminum cap or extrusion and drilled some test holes into the core.
The bit brought up water and mush!
not to pursue this avenue for my boat.
a perfect medium for the dual core radiused transoms on MFG boats.
to insure a good bond to the skins.
the interior of the skins down to the fibeglass. I used a 3/8" drill bit chucked into an extension that allowed me to drill down to the bottom. I found that by drilling out the center of the core, I was able to pull out large pieces of the plywood. It just takes a lot of patience, but it works.
let it sit out in the sun for several days with fans on it.
'floating blocks' that just sit on top of the core.
come down below the ski tow eyes. I drilled the inner and bottom edges so that the Nida would flow into and "peg" these pieces.
I wanted to make sure the transom was as level and verticle as possible, so I put the trailer tongue on the ground and jacked it up as high as possible in the rear. This allowed me to level and have a solid work platform and get the transom as verticle (front to back) as possible.
I used metal duck tape to cover my motor bolt holes from the outside and plugged them from the inside with Kitty Hair and resin soaked cloth.
it easier on me as I was working alone.
Everthing went perfectly! The Nida flowed into the aft area between the floor and hull and solidly filled this area. Pouring it to the top was a snap and the whole process mixing, pouring and all took less than 30 minutes. As the material began curing, it generated so much heat that I had to leave the shop. I could feel it about 2 inches forward on the sides and maybe six inches on the bottom. this means that the Nida flowed into this below floor space and gave me a much better anchor to the rest of the hull than the original transom.
The next day I cleaned everything up, used a little Kitty Hair to fill in the quarter inch or so of void I had on the front edge of the transom. (You would have to get the transom perfectly verticle to avoid this) and screwed the extrusion back on. A little scrubbing and wax, and you cannot tell the boat has been worked on. this was a must for me, as I am not a cosmetics kind of guy. Here is the end result.
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CRASHDÏET Release New Single and Lyric Video 'No Man's Land'
Nov 29, 2021 | Bands, Crashdiet, News
CRASHDÏET are one of the biggest names in the glam metal/sleaze rock scene and the band recently signed to global rock powerhouse label Golden Robot Records.
CRASHDÏET are back in the studio working on their 6th studio album, due out early 2022 and have delivered a taste of what's to come with their new single 'No Man's Land' which is out now on all digital platforms. 'No Man's Land' is also accompanied by a killer video clip.
Watch new single and lyric video 'No Man's Land' HERE
'No Man's Land' is the first single from CRASHDÏET's new studio album, which will be their first since 2019's Rust. The single is sung with powerful and precise vocals, surrounded by thick driving bass, heavy guitar chops, rock-solid drums and scintillating production. 'No Man's Land' is a story about looking inwards and moving forward, no matter the cost. 'No Man's Land' sees the band on top of their game and once again proving Sweden as a world leader in this genre.
Listen/ Buy 'No Man's Land' HERE
ABOUT CRASHDÏET
With the motto "go big or stay home" Crashdïet formed in Stockholm back in the year 2000 and brought in the new millennium with full-throttle speed and excess.
Crashdïet released their critically acclaimed debut album Rest in Sleaze in 2005, giving them a spring of success in their home country of Sweden and abroad.
Shortly after, their frontman Dave Lepard was found dead at his home, the result of a tragic suicide in January 2006.
With a career littered with abuse, tragic deaths and lineup changes, it nearly ended the band more than once, but the band have become known for picking up the pieces and returning to the scene of the crime… every time.
The surviving band members and new blood have carried the glam-metal sleaze-rock torch ever since, touring the world and releasing many acclaimed studio albums.
Crashdïet are:
Gabriel Keyes – vocals
Martin Sweet – guitars
Peter London – bass
Eric Young – drums
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The first artificial bodies available for use by virtual entities were known as remotes or surrogates, teleoperated robots which could be operated at a distance by a human or AI. Later, remotes were used by uploaded humans (virtuals) to interact with the physical world. Another option which became available at this time was downloading an entire infomorph into a physical body. At first these bodies were sophisticated robots, direct descendants of the teleoperated remotes available previously. Because many of the first robot bodies used by downloaded mentalities were available via rental or hire-purchase arrangements, these became known as rental bodies.
During the First Federation era, with the development of engeneration technology, it became possible to install the upload into a biological body. In the early days of this technology the upload would be installed into a body created from the upload's original DNA. As the technology became more sophisticated it became possible to choose from a range of different bodies, with different physical characteristics, different augmentations, different sexes (including herm, merm and neut) and even different species.
Many colonists have been downloaded into radically tweaked bodies capable of surviving in environments very different to Earth-Normal (see the article on Pantropy for more details). Eventually, after the discovery of Xenosophont species on distant worlds, it became possible to download into alien bodies and interact with these civilisations directly (see article on First Contact for more details).
In the modern era many sophonts of all types deliberately upload themselves so they can download into a new body (or several) of their own choice. The range of bodies available for downloading is very wide, and includes robotic, biological and hybrid/cyborg options often with advanced capabilities. Common names for such new bodies include 'shells', 'jackets', or 'sleeves'. Some sophonts hop from shell to shell at will, following current modes and trends of fashion.
As well as uploaded biont mentalities there are many different types of infomorph who have never possessed a physical body. Simms (recreations of fictional or historical persons), Evocations (close approximations of real bionts created using data obtained from their exoself), digis (artificially generated virtual beings inhabiting virtual reality scenarios), and aioid infomorphs (copies or partial copies of sentient AI programs of many kinds) all could take advantage of downloading technology to become installed in a physical incarnation of one sort or another.
Many choose to be installed into robot bodies; aioids quite often choose entirely non-biont vec bodies, such as bushbots or starhands. But simms, evocations and digis often choose forms that closely resemble their virtual form. A virtual entity based on a biont form may chose a robot body that replicates their own species; these synthetic bodies are often robust and serviceable while still reproducing the biont experience closely.
Other virtuals choose to be incarnated into a body made of flesh and blood. Of all the classes of virtual being, only uploads (and a few simms) have samples of their original DNA from which a new body may be wrought. All other virtual beings have (virtual) bodies which are essentially fictional, and this means that before downloading can begin a suitable body must be genetically designed from scratch to replicate that virtual form as close as possible. Designer algorithms developed many millennia ago by Genen vatbrains allow this process to be achieved quite successfully in most cases.
Some fictional sophonts are quite a challenge to provide bodies for; many stylised cartoon virtual entities require neogen bodies which bear little resemblance to any other living creature. Incarnated virtual halflings, kinder, goblins and dragons are reasonably widespread, and often find company among other mythological and fictional races on world-reservations such as Ribblehead and Mysterland. Competitions between incarnated fictional virtual species are quite commonplace, and range from friendly contests to bloody warfare (usually resulting in reincarnation for some, or all of the combatants).
In some cases a virtual sophont (or several such entities) decide to create an entirely novel real-life body for their incarnate; the result (known as a reling) can be very imaginative and unique, defying any classification among existing clades. The most exotic of these creations can be classified as true relmonsters, living creatures that may cause havoc in a real-life environment.
In other instances the virtual sophonts require physically sophisticated bodies, because their virtual personas are physically or mentally superior to nearbaseline humans and other species. One early example was the incarnated Fifth Men; a race of virtual humans created to populate a partial simulation of a classic Old Earth novel by Olaf Stapledon, these creatures were engenerated in the Bolobo system, but genetic neuro-engineering was not sophisticated enough at that time to faithfully reproduce the advanced minds of those speculative creatures, and the experiment failed. Later attempts to incarnate the Fifth Men, and other even more advanced and specialised simms and digis from later fictional narratives were more successful.
In many fictional VR narratives, role-playing games, and worldbuilding scenarios, there are a number of virch beings who are specifically designed to be antagonists, and are sometimes preconfigured to be entirely evil. This preconfiguration often consists of the construction of a psychopathic or otherwise morally or perceptually limited individual. However this individual may be remarkably intelligent, especially the end-of-level antagonists found in certain adventure games. In most jurisdictions these limited, some might say blighted individuals are prevented by law from ever becoming incarnate; but in some free zones and elsewhere the incarnation of such antagonistic creations is condoned, even welcomed as entertainment. Sometimes hordes of mildly warped lesser beings such as trolls or imps are incarnated to be their minions.
In some cases the incarnation of an antagonistic virch is followed by periods of conflict and bloodshed; the incarnated villain may not realise that e has been given physical life as part of an extreme form of entertainment. On occasion the antagonist will win control of a system, and either rule despotically or attempt to invade nearby stars (with disastrous results, one way or another.) But in many cases the incarnated supervillain, once given a new physical and biological persona, starts to change psychologically until e is closer to the mental norm for the species of his physical body. This process usually results in the reformation of the antagonist's character, and eventually eir rehabilitation. Institutes for the Benefit of the Formerly Evil exist in many major systems, designed to assist such supervillains and their minions to become useful members of society.
Religious conception that there is a soul or personality that continues after the death of the physical body, and is reborn and lives again in a future life. An important component in many religions, also a common folk-belief. See also rebirths.
A robotic or nanodevice for relifing. Relboxes tend to be tightly controlled (but, regrettably, not tightly enough) by archai, angelnets or guardians, to avoid creating dangerous relnano, monstrous reltrapworlds and relmonsters.
A fraction of virtual worlds are run by bizarre, breakaway virtual beings, which often have only a limited understanding of the rl. For the real persons entering or interacting with them via virtual reality, they appear as nothing less than nightmares brought to life, or deadly traps. Reltrapworlds are illegal and punished by erasing the virtual existence(s) who created them. Nevertheless, some still sneak through.
 A symbolic term for all relifed things, sophonts, places etc.
Place in real life controlled by virtuals.
First applications were advanced, semiautomatic rl/Net interfaces with limited manipulation by virtuals. They soon grew and diversified, including learning centers, entertainment places and relfactories. Includes dangerous reltrapworlds.
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Just like empanadas, these beef tacos are fun for kids to eat and freeze well for future meals.
Unroll one pie crust at a time onto your work surface and cut into six 3 x 4 rectangles. Repeat with the remaining crusts. Cover dough with plastic wrap to keep from drying out.
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, sauté the onion for 5 minutes.
Add the beef and sauté until cooked through.
Stir in cumin, chili powder, salt, and pepper. Remove from heat and let cool until warm.
Place six pie crust rectangles on one prepared baking sheets.
Spread a layer of beans onto each crust.
Scoop about 1/4 cup meat or less on top of beans. Sprinkle with cheese.
Place pie crust rectangles on top of each pop tart.
Using a fork, seal the edges by pressing down with the tines. Repeat with the remaining dough. Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of all of the sealed pop tarts. Sprinkle with salt or paprika (optional).
Place in the oven and bake until golden brown for about 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly.


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To answer a question like "how has the number of jobs in an industry changed over time?" one must first establish a definition for the industry. This is not necessarily a simple nor straightforward task.
Historically, many analyses relied upon Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. The SIC system was last updated in 1987. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) was initially issued in 1992. SIC codes describe businesses based on the products or services they produce, while NAICS classifies businesses based on the processes used to create the products or services.
In addition to these codes, the Your Economy Time Series developed and maintains its own Market Segment designations.
Industries change over time in response to market forces and innovations. In response to these changes, the US Census issues updated NAICS code definitions every five years – adding new codes to describe burgeoning categories while consolidating and/or reinterpreting others. The 2022 NAICS Code definitions include 238 changes.
These updates present additional challenges for using snapshot-based economic data like QCEW, CES or CBP to study the dynamics of jobs per industry over time. How can we tell if the number of jobs in an industry increased, when the definition of the industry itself was modified?
This is where the Your Economy Time Series provides a strategic advantage. We track NAICS, SIC and Market Segments, for every establishment, for every year. We will be using NAICS Concordances provided by US Census to assign a 2022 NAICS code to each of the 46.5+ million records in our database. The new NAICS definitions will be included in our next major database release, expected in April 2023. Using this approach, research about the number of jobs in an industry will clearly show the change in the number of jobs – regardless of the definition of the industry.
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Radio 4832: Radio Broadcasting 513111: Radio Networks 513112: Radio Stations 515111: Radio Networks 515112: Radio Stations Unchanged from 2002 516110: Radio Broadcasting Stations 516210: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks & Other Media Networks and Content Providers
Television 4832: Television Broadcasting Stations 513120: Television Broadcasting 515120: Television Broadcasting Unchanged from 2002 512120: Television Broadcasting Stations
Cable 4841: Cable & Other Pay Television Services 513210: Cable Networks 515210: Cable & Other Subscription Programming Unchanged from 2002 516210: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks & Other Media Networks and Content Providers
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A CV is a very important document when it comes to job applications; it's the document that gets you interviews. It should contain your name and contact details at the top and then list all your work experiences with dates starting with your most recent at the top to the last one position.
It should also include your qualifications and lastly, the CV should have your work achievements and professional affiliation where applicable as this distinguishes you from ordinary job seekers giving you a head start.
Just because you did not get a job last year does not mean that you now apply for any job that comes you way. Study the job first, make sure that you match the qualifications the employer is looking for, beyond that make sure that you make the application at the right time which means within the first three days of the advertisement.
Again, it makes no sense in making an application for a perfect job but you do it late when the position is already closed.
More than half of the jobs are found through networking and referrals; this means that being in touch with your networks is an important part of finding the right job.
Well, getting invited for an interview does not mean you got the job, it only means you are a little closer to getting the job and what stand between you and the job is an interview.
It's very important to prepare for the interview as it increases your chances of getting the job. Carry out a background research on the company, research more on the role, also go a step further and find out what different companies are offering for the position so that you are able to negotiate for the salary.
The importance of interview preparation is that it reduces nervousness during the interview as when you are well prepared you feel more confident.
Most graduates wasted the whole of 2016 waiting for the perfect jobs; those big titles in prestigious companies. Truth is, there is nothing that comes easy and you have to start below in order to get to the top of the ladder. So if you get offers for attachment/internships this year, accept the offers as this is where you get experience need to go to the next level.


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Richard Emsley was born in Goole, Yorkshire in December 1951. His first musical interests, starting at about the age of 10, revolved around the pop music of the early to mid-1960's and this period saw the composition of about 100 pop songs. By his mid-teens Emsley had been introduced by a friend to the classical music of the early twentieth century in the shape of works such as Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16 and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps.
During his formal musical education at University College Cardiff, where his tutor was Arnold Whittall, Emsley tended to specialise in analytical rather than compositional options, his first year dissertation being on the subject of musical stasis and later ones exploring movement and time in twentieth century music and the work of Pierre Boulez. During this period Emsley frequently attended the composition classes of Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington International Summer School of Music, was a co-founder of The Cardiff Composers' Ensemble, and composed his earliest acknowledged work The lunar silences, the silent tide lapping… for performance at The Cardiff Festival of Twentieth Century Music.
On moving to London in 1976 Emsley took on work as a music engraver, which continues to be his principal form of livelihood (he typeset the 1500 music examples for Elaine Gould's highly praised 2011 Faber Music publication Behind Bars "the definitive guide to music notation"). A central activity at this time was the London new music ensemble Suoraan, co-founded and co-directed with the composer James Clarke. Consisting of a small band of outstanding specialist performers, the ensemble dedicatedly promoted the music of, centrally, Iannis Xenakis but also younger British and European composers such as Michael Finnissy and James Dillon. Six ensemble works were composed by Emsley for the group, including in 1981 the music theatre piece The Juniper Tree.
Following his time with Suoraan Emsley fulfilled a number of commissions, including an extended children's music theatre work for the now-defunct Inner London Education Authority, a solo work for the harpsichordist Jane Chapman, and …from swerve of shore to bend of bay… for The Fires of London. In 1988 an article on Emsley's work by composer Richard Barrett appeared in Tempo magazine, leading to an invitation to participate in the Composers' Forum at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. However, following the composition of the piano solo work Flow Form there ensued a lengthy period of reappraisal and experimentation.
The creative silence of this period was finally broken in 1996 with the composition of finnissys fifty, Little Sunderings and the first of the for piano series, these works representing the discovery of a new pared-down piano idiom which has proved a fruitful seam.
finnissys fifty was commissioned and first performed by the pianist Ian Pace, who has continued to be a major exponent of Emsley's work, performing it, as well as in Britain, at festivals including 'Evenings of New Music' Bratislava, 'Music Summit' Cologne, '…antasten… Internationales Pianoforum' Heilbronn and 'Mostly Modern' Dublin. In 2003 the Japanese pianist Kentaro Noda performed the first twelve pieces of the for piano series at the inaugural concert of a new music venue in Kobe, and in the same year Philip Thomas commissioned the 43-minute for piano 13 for an Emsley portrait concert which he curated in Sheffield. Additionally, works in the for piano series have twice been selected for performance at ISCM World Music Days – in Bucharest (1999) and Yokohama (2001) – and have been taken up by other pianists including Mary Dullea, Nicolas Hodges, Isabel Ettenauer, Robert Keeley and Kate Ryder.
The most recent pieces in the series, for piano 14 and for piano 15, were commissioned by the internationally distinguished pianist Jonathan Powell, and have recently been discussed at length by Arnold Whittall in "Expressionism revisited: modernism beyond the twentieth century" published in Transformations of Musical Modernism.
In contrast to this exclusive focus on the solo piano, in 2002 Emsley began Still/s, a cycle of 24 solos, duos and trios exploring all the possible combinations of a five-instrument reservoir. Involving even more drastically pared-down material than the piano works, this series sprang from a joint commission with the visual artist Joan Key by the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill for its 2002 Colour White exhibition, during which Key's Six White Paintings for Composition were exhibited concurrently with the first performance by Anton Lukoszevieze of Emsley's solo cello piece Still/s 1. Ten further works in the cycle have so far been completed, in response to commissions from Carl Rosman and Mark Knoop of the Libra Ensemble, the violinists Angharad Davies and Darragh Morgan, the clarinettists Ian Mitchell and Andrew Sparling, and the London concert series Music We'd Like To Hear, which dedicated an entire evening to a performance of Still/s 1-6 performed by Apartment House in July 2008.
A portrait CD of Emsley's music performed by pianist Ian Pace, guitarist Alan Thomas and the ensemble Topologies, conducted by Mikel Toms, was released on the Divine Art/Metier label in 2002, and three of Emsley's piano works are included on British!, a recent CD release by the German pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. In 2011 a joint 60th birthday concert with the British composer James Erber was given in London.
Current projects include a new addition to a series generically entitled Casts for the Australian ensemble ELISION – all the pieces in this series being for live instruments and a tape part treating the voice of mezzo soprano Loré Lixenberg – two further works in the for piano series for Jonathan Powell and Philip Thomas specifically intended for inclusion on CDs of Emsley's piano music planned by both pianists, and a first orchestral piece, Strange Attractor, commissioned by the BBC for performance by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov at Tectonics Glasgow in May 2016.


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Audi kicks off A3 celebrity-fest marketing campaign with Dues
Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:59:00 EST
Audi is desperate to appeal to young people with its new 2015 A3 sedan. It's planning launch parties around the country to present the new model to these younger buyers, and its latest tactic is a series of videos starring celebrities the company considers trailblazers to further captivate youthful buyers.
The advertising campaign starts with a spot titled Dues starring comedian Ricky Gervais, chef David Chang, photo journalist Lynsey Addario, comedian Kristen Schaal, boxer Claressa Shields, artist collective Cyrcle, and church choir Voices of Destiny. It's being followed up with seven, minute-long online documentaries called Uncompromised Portraits about the folks featured in the new ad. Audi believes that they are all trailblazers who have forged their own way, and it's all supposed to fit with the A3's slogan of "Stay Uncompromised."
Dues will play during the NCAA March Madness tournament. Audi is also running two, 30-second commercials during the games to highlight the sedan's technology and two, 15-second ads to promote its Quattro all-wheel-drive system.
Audi A8 super high-tech headlight teased, whole car coming Aug 21
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:01:00 EST
We have to wait one more week before we get to see the 2015 Audi A8 and S8, but it doesn't look like Audi is going to stay quiet until then. After releasing a pair of teaser videos over the last week, it has now released a first detailed picture of the new A8 revealing the trick Matrix LED headlight.
Between the high-beam and low-beam lights, the headlights contain 43 LEDs (not including those for the DRL/turn signal), but the innovative part of Matrix LED system is that a camera can control the high-beam lights - by either dimming them or shutting them off - when other vehicles are detected on the road to prevent the lights from distracting other drivers. Of course the big question remaining is if Audi can get these new headlights to pass the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and its Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The taillights also get a cool design with 24 LEDs that use a sequential turn signal
As for the debut of the A8 and S8, we already knew the sedans would be unveiled on August 21 ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show, but Audi finally made it officially official in a press release, which is posted below. Also be sure to check out the pair of teaser videos Audi has released for these cars recently.
Audi mechanic takes owner's S4 home for the weekend
When you bring your car to a dealer, you expect a technician to take it out for a spin, just to make sure there aren't any noises, rattles or other behavior that you may have missed. Maybe they run a few miles along a predetermined test route or take a quick run down the highway. You do not, however, expect a tech to abscond with you vehicle for a full weekend
That is just what happened to Chris Jackson, though, an Audi S4 owner in Calgary. His car was taken to Glenmore Audi - as mandated in his lease agreement - due to an issue with the navigation system. After realizing he'd left something in the car, he swung by the dealer on Saturday to pick it up, only to discover the car wasn't on the dealer's lot.
Naturally, he approached the dealer about the missing sedan.