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Post by JoJo on Jan 13, 2009 21:05:25 GMT -5
I've been listening to Howard long enough (15 years I think) to know he wouldn't even entertain the idea, so.. He has his own ideas about what makes an interesting celeb interview, and he'll no doubt apply that formula here, meaning questions about women, sex, and women again. (but probably has been warned about asking about Heather) All the same, it will be entertaining. Hey, last time he was on, we heard the story about how Yoko approached him previous to meeting John for the first time.. So ya never know.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 13, 2009 18:03:21 GMT -5
Another good article: thephoenix.com/Boston/News/74940-Congress-bans-kids-from-libraries/Is it possible that Congress has just inadvertently turned millions of children’s books into contraband? At the moment, anything seems possible with regard to the sprawling, 62-page Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), passed this past August with overwhelming margins in both the House (424-1) and the Senate (89-3).
The CPSIA, intended to keep lead out of toys, may well also keep books out of libraries, says Emily Sheketoff, associate executive director of the American Library Association.
“We are very busy trying to come up with a way to make it not apply to libraries,” said Sheketoff. But unless she succeeds in lobbying Capitol Hill for an exemption, she believes libraries have two choices under the CPSIA: “Either they take all the children’s books off the shelves,” she says, “or they ban children from the library.”
On February 10, the new law gets teeth. After that day, all products for children under 12 — books, games, toys, sports equipment, furniture, clothes, DVDs, and just about every other conceivable children’s gadget and gewgaw — must be tested for lead, and fall below a new 600 part-per-million limit, or face the landfill. Thanks to a September 12 memo from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the lead limit applies not only to new products, but also to inventory already on store shelves.
“Under this new regime, you are suspect until proven safe,” says Allan Adler, the American Association of Publishers’ vice president for legal and governmental affairs.
As the February 10 deadline approaches, the CPSIA has been causing increasing consternation — and, at times, hysteria — among makers and sellers of children’s products, who are just beginning to realize the financial and logistical nightmare they face in trying to comply. Lead testing promises to be expensive — from several hundred to several thousand dollars per test, depending on the product. And each batch of each item must be tracked and tested, making compliance brutally expensive for items with small runs.
Historically, books have been considered more dangerous to read than to eat. Regardless, a memo from the CPSC, issued the day before Christmas Eve, explicitly quashed any hope that books might escape the new law. To make matters worse, even publishers that have already had their products tested for lead will be forced to retest. In the same memo, existing test results based on “soluble lead” — a measure of whether lead will migrate out of a product — were rejected by the CPSC because they did not measure “total lead content.”
The CPSC has not issued any ruling on whether libraries, schools, and other institutions that loan — rather than sell — books will be subject to the law. Without such clear guidance, says Adler, schools and libraries should assume they have to comply.
“If [the CPSC is] going to say that we’re being alarmist,” says Adler, “that’s fine, as long as they provide an explanation that we can understand and rely on. That’s what’s been missing from this entire discussion.”
Regardless of whether libraries and schools are affected, the CPSIA is poised to take a massive bite out of the book industry. Large retailers are beginning to demand that publishers comply, even in advance of the law’s deadline. This Wednesday, Amazon.com sent a general letter informing its vendors that, if they did not certify their products by January 15, the items would be returned at the sellers’ expense.
Like their peers in the toy and garment industries, many sellers of children’s books are just beginning to try to understand how the CPSIA will affect their businesses.
“All of us are totally in the dark,” says Terri Schmitz, owner of the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline. “I can’t make a decision, because I don’t know what the regulations are. We’re all sort of in limbo here.”
Libraries may yet escape unscathed. The CPSIA is changing rapidly as the CPSC scrambles to clarify the confusing lead law before it goes into effect. Thrift stores, consignment shops, and other used-goods stores got a partial reprieve yesterday in a hastily drafted CPSC memo: While resellers still face stiff civil and criminal penalties if they sell lead-contaminated items, used goods will not have to be tested for lead.
In lieu of actual testing, the memo urged resellers to “pay special attention to certain product categories,” like jewelry and painted toys, which are “likely to have lead content.”
Which prompts the obvious question: If other children’s products aren’t likely to contain lead, why is the CSPC regulating them?
From the sweeping language of the law, it appears Congress left them no choice. The Act covers any “consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age and younger.”
“Consider for a minute that a twelve-year-old is a junior high school student,” says Adler. “This is not somebody who is likely to be chewing or sucking on a book.”
Lissa Harris can be reached atlissa.e.harris@gmail.com.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 13, 2009 17:58:30 GMT -5
It's on Sirius Satellite Radio, you have to be a subscriber, but no worries, it will be easy to get not very long after broadcast. A Stern interview is very much a wild card, could be just about anything that comes out of it..
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Post by JoJo on Jan 13, 2009 15:28:09 GMT -5
Plastic Paul is correct, some took it a bit more seriously than was the intent. It's a funny joke if you're in on it..
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Post by JoJo on Jan 13, 2009 15:25:14 GMT -5
Howard announced it this morning for any of you Sirius listeners.
(I'll get a copy of course)
Edit: He will also be on "The View", for those who are interested.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 11, 2009 19:04:12 GMT -5
I don't know how many here read the entire book up to the cut-off point, (I suspect I'm the only one) but I enjoyed it. Anyone who knows that he was Sir Paul's press agent is going to assume the story's ego maniacal boss Ian Taylor is modeled after his old boss.. I wonder if said boss got a bit perturbed? Maybe not, and who knows if Geoff's ego is so fragile that he would take down the story because of what he termed "hate mail". (from the 'IAAP Freedom Fighters') I, like you, can only guess. I noticed that he didn't really get a lot of comments, all things considered.. Wonder if he felt it didn't get the admiration it deserved?
I was thinking of archiving it too, damn.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 11, 2009 18:41:51 GMT -5
Aw too bad, was waiting for the conclusion to the cliffhanger to be posted.
I hadn't read the comments in a week or two, but I got the overall impression he wasn't taking the "freedom fighter" business all that seriously. He must have his reasons obviously, but it's a bit of a leap to assume it's IAAP related.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 11, 2009 18:31:21 GMT -5
Sounds over the top, but have have a look at this: bookshopblog.com/2009/01/04/book-burning-on-feb-10th-2009-due-to-cpsia/Or you could, seems like the post went down the memory hole, however it's still in the Google cache: tinyurl.com/7vs82sA cut and paste to keep it alive: (read the Google cache link for links to other info) The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA H.R. 4040) has a good goal: protect kids from dangerous imports tainted with lead. Bravo! Unfortunately it goes about doing so in such a way that it’ll drive up costs across the board, drive many manufacturers and retailers out of business, and not really make kids any safer.
So what does CPSIA do? It mandates lead testing for ALL items intended for children under 13 or PERCEIVED as being for those under age 13. So items commonly regarded as “kids stuff” even if it is intended for adults, such as many comics, collectible books, high end popups, etc, still falls under the statute even though they’re aimed at adult collectors.
It requires UNIT testing. The final product must be tested from each batch. It doesn’t matter if all the components going into it are certified and have been tested as having no lead, it still must be tested for lead.
Here’s an example. You publish textbooks for 4th graders. You publish a science textbook. You publish a spelling book. They are printed with all the same materials, on the same day, on the same press, with the same crew manning it. You must test the science book and the spelling book separately because they may contain lead!
This basically seems to imply that somehow alchemy works. Non-lead containing item + non-lead containing item= LEAD!
The manufacturer needs to provide a testing certificate to the retailer, which must be available for inspection, should a Consumer Product Safety Administration inspector come in. No certificate, the retailer can’t sell it.
The truly bizarre part is that the new regulations apply retroactively. Even if it was printed 50 years ago and the publisher no longer exists, you need to have a certificate proving it’s not filled with lead. Even if it is the only remaining copy of a rare children’s book worth thousands of dollars and only will ever be handled by collectors, you cannot sell it because you can’t prove it is not filled with lead.
Anything manufactured after November 10th 2008 should have come with a certificate certifying it has been tested for lead. If your distributor didn’t provide one, you need to call and get one. As of Febuary 10th, its in fact illegal for your distributor to sell you a kids’ book without a certificate of lead testing, no matter when it was printed.
Objects without a certification still have to be tested. So those copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows that were printed in 2007 that are still available new at Amazon may have to be destroyed as of February 10th 2009 because they haven’t been tested for lead. (Amazon is taking this seriously and sent a mail to all affiliates asking them to provide the lead testing certificates for all items)
How bad can the punishment be? For selling books? Up to $100,000 PER ITEM and up to five years in jail. It’s also a felony. Get busted, you may lose your right to vote in some states. Even if you can fight it in court, you’ll likely go broke doing so and your local newspaper will carry the headline “Local business selling lead tainted goods”… even though you know they aren’t. Good luck getting them to print the retraction months or years later after that PR disaster.
This includes not just selling, but distribution. So you can’t donate the untested goods to your local library, Good Will, or literacy program. You also can’t sell them to overseas collectors either, as they’re illegal to export. (preventing dumping of truly toxic goods on third world markets is one of the few good portions of this law. Good job on that, bad job on the rest)
This leaves you, the bookseller, with two legal options: store the books indefinitely, hoping regulations change, OR destroy them.
What to do? Write your Congressman. You can look up the mailing info for your Congressman and Senators through House.gov and Senate.gov Call them on the phone too! Some of them may have a staffer dedicated to handling inquiries or willing to tell you which of the many addresses will get the mail in your representatives hands fastest.
Foreign dealers, this does effect ALL imports, even individual items shipped through the mail. Try writing to your country’s consulate in the US. They cannot directly effect legislation, but can certainly express their concern to government officials in the US.
EDIT: as of 1/8/09 CPSC has issued an exemption for second hand dealers. New books are STILL not exempted, but step in right direction. (and no guarantee they won’t change their mind again)
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Post by JoJo on Jan 7, 2009 21:55:12 GMT -5
Another thread about this: invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=3070It's called "You Probably Think This Book Is About You"Hmmm.. Wonder who he is addressing? The star, Ian Taylor, is larger than life, been around since the 60's, has a huge ego, belittles his PR guy (and everyone else) and once belonged to a rock group that he is dead set against reuniting with.. But he is NOT a Beatle, that is made clear.. Even though this describes a certain Beatle.. with a bit of exaggeration thrown in.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 7, 2009 17:56:44 GMT -5
One admin in particular, widely known and believed to be foreign, was in fact an American college student who wrote his responses to posts in English, translated them into the language of that foreign nationality via BabelFish, and then translated that back into English to provide the appropriate degree of broken English.
Huh.. Never thought of that. Kinda makes sense tho.
All I can say about 60IF/TKIN vs. PID/PWR/Beatles and all the mystery around it.. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 5, 2009 17:47:26 GMT -5
I'd be worried, except Stevie made a post at GLP predicting it would blow up.. Unsurprisingly, Florida (where he is now) will be a safe place. Not to make light of this though, because as best the experts can figure, the volcano does run on a hundreds of thousands years cycle that's overdue.. Could be tomorrow, could be 10,000 years, who knows.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 5, 2009 5:42:39 GMT -5
Wasn't the story of the alleged Frian supposed to be that he disappeared after Brian was reported dead? As in, there isn't a Frian running around? This is from MMT, which is post Brian's reported death.. NOT an alleged Frian!
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Post by JoJo on Jan 4, 2009 11:47:32 GMT -5
You get three strikes.. (been down this road before) He closed it himself.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 3, 2009 1:18:38 GMT -5
"Isn't it amazing how Sir Paul & his daughter Mary have the same beautiful light colored eyes." Well, I think we can rule out Paul being the father, then, since brown eyes are a dominant genetic trait :-) Except we have no way of knowing whether Paul carried one recessive blue eye gene. Bb = One brown, (dominant) one blue (recessive) = brown eyes bb = 2 blues (recessive) = blue eyes Bb + bb = 50/50 chance of child having blue eyes. A brown eyed individual with "BB" cannot possibly have a blue eyed child however. Point is, without a DNA test, it's almost impossible to know which set of genes a brown eyed person carries, as the recessive gene theoretically could slip through several generations before making an appearance. (would especially apply to the English/Welsh/Scottish gene pool) To take this further, two brown eyed people could have a blue eyed child under the following scenario: Bb + Bb = 25% odds
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Post by JoJo on Jan 3, 2009 1:04:10 GMT -5
I lean on the side of believing that story, just because it would be the most cutting remark Lennon could make while delivering the "Yesterday" pun. Then again, he did craft an even more relevant-for-the-time double pun with the "Another Day" reference. Much more clever and effective. I believe John made noise about saying it too, much like he made like he was going to say "rattle your f***ing jewelry".. just to enjoy freaking people out and then playing it more or less safe in the end.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 2, 2009 11:54:05 GMT -5
Anyway, people here seem to instantly dislike most of "F"aul's stuff, so blah. Not everyone.. The solo McCartney material "haters" simply are the most vocal. The ones who like him probably feel getting into an argument about it is pointless. I like everything in varying degrees starting with "McCartney", although I can take or leave early to mid 80's material.
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Post by JoJo on Jan 1, 2009 21:41:50 GMT -5
Just hanging this here, because I said in Taf's blog that John was advised by Ringo not not use the lines: The only thing you done was yesterday.. I bet you pinched that bitch anyway..And Taf asked me about the source, could be in Beatlefan as a commenter replied, I have a big stack of back issues: I disagree with Jojo on just about everything (I'm PIA after all) but Jojo is correct. The story was mentioned in Beatlefan magazine in an interview with one of the musicians (Klaus Voorman?) who played on the record.I'm sure "just about everything" encompasses far too much for it to be true.. Anyway, been reading the recently released Philip Norman book, and while Ringo is not directly quoted or sourced, seems likely he at least heard it. (and would have surely suggested it was a BAD idea) p.672: Felix Dennis, who was around as the lyric took shape, remembers John's fellow musicians, including Ringo, telling him in vain that he was going way too far. In its original version, the line after the "Yesterday" reference was "You probably stole that bitch anyway." Only when the album was being mastered in NY did Allen Klein persuade John to cut it on the grounds that Paul would probably sue...The only problem I have with this is that having heard many takes/rehearsals of HDYS, not once is that line in there. I suspect Allen Klein seizing an opportunity to portray himself as "saving the day", when he had little or nothing to do with it... Likely the line change was very early in the process.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 31, 2008 23:33:06 GMT -5
Might I just remind the "almighty one" that our 5th anniversary is approaching. Can we do something special darling? God? Isn't that getting a bit familiar with the almighty? I'm enjoying a Three Stooges marathon, and will be toasting in the new year with a friend with some of this: (got a little bit left RL)
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Post by JoJo on Dec 31, 2008 23:17:36 GMT -5
Hold the phone here... I know this picture made an appearance at NIR sometime in the not so distant past. Don't know where the thread is, but I suspect it was considered remarkable that this man had such a resemblance to Brian, as he was dead by this point.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 29, 2008 17:29:55 GMT -5
Something some may have not heard before, an interview in 1980, post the filming of Coming Up. (but clearly pre-JL's death, as that would have to have been a topic of discussion otherwise) Side 1Side 2Just before the 12:00 mark, he starts talking about making the video, and talks about playing "Beatle Paul", and says if someone's going to impersonate me, it might as well be myself.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 26, 2008 21:44:08 GMT -5
It was Boxing Day, 1967 when the Beatles unveiled their long-awaited surreal TV musical, Magical Mystery Tour, including scenes of the Fab Four gliding effortlessly in a spectacular white-tie and tails routine. Today is Boxing Day, and I caught a holiday episode of M*A*S*H last night.. The plot, which started with the crew being visited by some British soldiers, involved the idea that the British enlisted men/officers trade places for the day as a tradition.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 26, 2008 21:30:04 GMT -5
When you get together with family during the holidays and there are kids around with their video games, you find out about something like... Rock Band.. It's a blast, and quite addictive. Somehow Apple and Co. are uncharacteristically un-stodgy about a new idea such as this, and will be cooperating on a Beatles version: www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/30/the-beatles-rock-band-makers-to-release-new-video-game-in-2009/As predicted yesterday, MTV, Harmonix and the Beatles’ Apple Corps. LTD. announced today that they will partner to create a video game based on the music of the Beatles, slated for release before the end of 2009. Representatives from the three companies said that the game — which was conceived with input from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison — will aim to feature the entire Beatles catalog and will offer an “experiential journey” off the band. This is the first time the Beatles music has been presented in an interactive, video game format. “This game will take you on a journey from the Beatles first album Please Please Me until the last album at Abbey Road,” said Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones. “It will span samples of the whole catalogue all the way through.” The three companies would not clarify whether Beatles content would be available for Rock Band or whether the game would feature avatars of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. “The project is a fun idea which broadens the appeal of the Beatles and their music,” McCartney said in a statement. “I like people having the opportunity to get to know the music from the inside out.” The acquisition of the video game rights to the Beatles catalog is a major, scale-tipping coup for Harmonix and MTV Games as they fight for music video game dominance over the like-minded Guitar Hero.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 26, 2008 17:03:48 GMT -5
I'll give you a link at the top of the NIR page, since you gave us a board. In the near future, I'll be moving this to the forum hopping board, but if being here for a bit helps out, that's fine. I don't believe you have a designation for "I'm pretty sure Paul was replaced, at least for a year or two"... PID/PIA/On the fence boxes me in too much, sorry.. Good luck with your forum.
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Post by JoJo on Dec 24, 2008 22:10:23 GMT -5
I just figured he remembered his scheduled takeoff time of 850 AM, (that might stick in your mind) the plane's takeoff was running late, and then the rest sorta blurred together. Just something random: Sure saved a lot of money on removing that nasty stuff, what a lucky break..
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Post by JoJo on Dec 23, 2008 23:50:41 GMT -5
In one place.. Or I should say this person has playlisted every possible Beatle related video on Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/dvs1572Someone commented on Taf's blog that the video that IAAP sampled with the mustached, arched eyebrow McCartney is in this collection, and I haven't found it yet. All the same, lots of good stuff with which to get sidetracked.
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