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Indonesia Tape

Dec 31, 2008 music cassettes

Indonesia Tape

Creative Zen Vision - Shall We Take A Look At An Award Winner?

The Creative Zen Vision is Creative Labs' newest addition to their successful line of portable media players. A 30GB video player it plays songs, displays photos, along with video collections. Creative Labs is the well-known C.E.S. award-wining family who, in May of 2006, won the "Red Dot Design Award" for Zen Vision's superior design quality, lightweight pocket-size, and innovation from Essen Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, in Germany. Also, in November of 2005, it was the winner of the "100 Best Gadgets of 2005" for the personal video player from Gadget Magazine, Indonesia.

The Zen Vision has won awards for many reasons, with the main one its ability to enjoy 120 hours of movie screenings, based on 500Kbps MPEG4-SP formats. It is available in a 30GB model which allows its users over 15,000 songs and thousands of photos. The recorder allows the user to tape their favorite songs live with the FM radio or their favorite talk show, plus being able to tape personal memos, lectures, or discussions.

The Vision has the ability to support many video formats. Some are the AVI, DivXTM 4 & 53, XviD4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG4-SP, WMV9 and Motion-JPEG. With this many choices available for the consumer, its unsurpassed video performance and superb photo. Many reviews find it the best-designed product in the PMP category – one available color, in addition to magnesium black, is the white magnesium case with a soft pearlescent finish, with a blue backlit controls. The low point seems to be the fact it is not made for group viewing, and also the screen as it is highly reflective, which is more of a problem when viewing photographs instead of videos as photos are brighter than video.

Something we haven't touched on yet was the screen size of the MP3 players. When deciding between a Creative Zen Vision and the iPod Video, the iPod didn't change screen size – reason? The iPod is known as the leader in music, not in videos. While the iPod screen is smaller, it seems to be more visible in multiple angles, while Creative Zen Vision is better straight on. All in all, it depends on the overall purpose of why you are buying the MP3 player.

The battery and power life has been a real problem with most of the MP3 players, and the Zen Vision seems to be at the peak of increased battery evolution. It includes the extended life Li-ion battery pack, for double playback time, which is removable, rechargeable, and very lightweight. The users can enjoy up to 26 hours of music, instead of eight or 13, or up to nine hours of video. We cannot look at any MP3 video without comparing it to the iPod versions. So therefore, we shall state the iPod offers 20 hours of battery life to listen to music, and the Zen Vision only offers 13 hours. And whenever one company has something "better to offer" there is always the other side of the coin for the brand X – so Creative Labs has made up for this lack of 7 hours by offering the extended battery pack. Apple? The ball is in your field now!

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Is Phillip Berg a sleazy nutjob?

Where is this so called tape made by Obamas grandmother? Why does Berg flip flop from saying Obama was born in Kenya to Obama could not have gone to school in Indonesia like he did unless he was born there? Obamas grandmother is aged obviously and may not even speak English.....if there is a tape, why won't he produce it so we can actually hear it? Furthermore, if there was ANY doubt as to Obamas birth place, why would this not be first and foremost on this countries agenda to check out suspicions? Would the Supreme Court simply drag their feet? COMEON!

Yes, he is. And he likes the spotlight and the money his case is raising for him.

As to the grandmother, with the poor living standard over in Kenya a person could be paid to say anything and who would authentic her voice to know it really was the grandmother?

The case all boils down to who is doing the asking. Obama has provided the birth certificate to the people on the Presidential Qualifications committee and that's all that counts. Obama is doing us all a favor by not allowing Berg to establish a precedent that says any crackpot can demand another person produce a birth certificate on the spot, for no reason but curiosity. Berg doesn't have legal standing to raise the issue of a candidate's constitutional eligibility. He is not on the committee that overseas such things. The case will get thrown out of court.

7.8 earthquake strikes Sumatra in Indonesia

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Cave Bad Seeds

Dec 31, 2008 music cassettes

Cave Bad Seeds

The Great Saint Arya Bodhidarma is the greatest teacher of meditation of the past. He meditated for nine years in a cave in China before he found his successor to carry on the Lineage of Tao according to Tao of Heaven. The questions were asked by serious meditators and below the answers explained by him:

Q1: How can a person know whether he has made progress in his meditation and can meditation be practised anywhere and anytime?

Ans: Meditation is the practice of stillness of the mind and one may try at any place. If one finds that the mind is less and less clouded like a cup of water, then one has made progress on stillness. Do not be over-anxious or too excited at seeing certain things, but let a calm mind progress with practice. As one moves on, one will see different stages. If in doubt, seek the necessary clarification. If illusion is too great, evil may get the better of you. Therefore stillness must first be achieved before practising in any other way.

Q2: Why are there so many types of meditation and how effective are they?

Ans: Why are there so many roads? All lead to a centralized place. The distance and the lighting are different, but all will still lead to the same destination that one wishes to go. But one should not try too many roads at one go or one will lose time. Concentrate on one and be familiar with this very road. Then you will know all its corners and pits.

Q3: What is the prayer for one to meditate?

Ans: Prayers to most people are merely to steady the heart and to feel the protection of the above. If the heart is pure, where will evil come from? One is his own protector and must not always be too dependant. Just like a man who is dying, if he begins to pray, does that mean he will not die?

Q4: When I sit down, close my eyes and stay calm, I tend to see a purple light. May I know whether it is an illusion or a true light. If it is a true light, what is the significance?

Ans: The brilliant light with its beauty can be seen by all. All beings see the light but it depends on whether one knows how to make good use of this light. In a room brightly lit up, upon closing the eyes, one may think that he sees light, but actually it is merely the light seen through the eyelids. Just as one closes the eyes when looking at the Sun, a bright red light seems to fall into sight. As all humans have an inborn nature, all will be able to see this guiding light. If one wishes to seek further into this, try to concentrate on the light that you see with every effort and try to centralize this light together and one day you will feel its presence.

Q5: During meditation, sometimes I feel some movement of heat inside my body. May I know why it is so and whether it is good or bad?

Ans: Meditation does not only aim at controlling the mind to a stillness stage. The breathing that takes place during meditation may control the vitality (Chi). As it moves along the meridian point one may feel certain jerking of the flesh, but when the concentration is not on the breathing, one may not easily feel the movement of the vitality.

Q6: Why are there many images distracting one's mind when one starts to meditate?

Ans: Human, human, even without meditation, your mind is already obstructed by many objects. If a person can really be free from greed, hatred and delusion then man will be free. Objects do not obstruct you but your own illusion is doing the work.

Q7: When a person is in deep meditation, will his body be attacked by evil spirit?

Ans: Whether a person is in deep meditation or not, the evils are always working around him. Given the chance, he will be pulled back. A person who can enter into a deep meditation, has attained stillness to a certain degree. The Heavenly Being dwells in a pure heart and anything can dwell instead in an unsteady heart.

In the teachings of Tao of Heaven, all men are Buddhas and they have the seed, but the seed has not taken root and that is why men are not Buddhas. If one wishes the seed to take root, work hard at it. Cultivate the right seed and plant it in the right soil. Look after it well and let it bloom and it is called the Attainment of Tao.

Author: T.A Chew

T.A Chew, during his practice of Buddhism in 1993 to 1995, spent at least five hours a day on meditation. Upon initiation of Tao and at the end of 1995, Master JiGong joked with him that if there is 36 hours a day, he will meditate 36 hours a day, but he cannot even save one person back to Heaven. Be like Goddess of Mercy, start saving people by propagating Tao. Website: http://www.white-sun.com

What are the Manic Street Preachers like?

I've been going through some old, 80s music that my dad has, and I listened to some Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and I enjoyed it. On a music site I trust, it says a related artist is the Manic Street Preachers. What do they sound like and would I enjoy them if I'm big on the Classic Rock and Alternative Rock scenes?

maybe yes maybe no ... first 3 (Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul and The Holy Bible) were 'heavier' , pop-rock-punk .. and the rest are more pop-rock- ish . Lyrically amazing band (especially when Richey Edwards was writing the lyrics , he disappeared in '95) , and they have some anthology riffs too .
give them a shot

Motorcycle Emptiness

From Despair To Where

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pcb0sOZTnQ

Everlasting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z7OyuhZQV8

Yes

A Design For Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKNVkU3DTA

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (2010 Digital Remaster)

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Alabama Cassette

Dec 31, 2008 music cassettes

Alabama Cassette

In the past, if you wanted to know what your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, or business partner was up to when you weren't around usually your only option was to hire a private investigator to monitor their every move and record any suspicious activity through the use of sophisticated surveillance equipment. This was and still is a very costly service that can quickly empty your wallet, and your bank account. Even if the information obtained is of little help to you the client, or even worse, useless.

These days who needs a private investigator? Do it yourself surveillance equipment has been around for quite awhile now and just the same as other niche markets the price for these products continue to drop as time goes by making it more affordable than ever to be your own private detective.

What used to be an activity only practiced by the FBI, the CIA, and other law enforcement agencies has now become a vital tool for fighting profit-loss due to customer/employee theft for many companies and small business owners. The use of surveillance equipment in the private sector has also gained interest, especially among the working class where child abuse and infidelity suspicions can be easily confirmed or dismissed through the use of hidden cameras.

The product choices are endless and there are several different ways to monitor any person, place, or thing your heart desires should the need arise. Who, what, when, where, why, and for how long can now be viewed in glorious living color (or b & w if you prefer) and in real-time while the recorded information is simultaneously being stored for retrieval at a later date if you so desire.

The equipment needed to capture and record any type of activity at anytime now only cost a fraction of what it used to! The price of becoming your own surveillance specialist will depend solely on the quality, number, and type of cameras you choose to use and the means by which they store the recorded data.

Hidden cameras, also called spy cams or nanny cams, can be placed inside something as small as a shirt button and can even be built into everyday working consumer electronics items including, but not limited to, video cassette recorders, DVD players, alarm clocks, and portable radios. Some models even come with a built-in digital video recorder (much like the ones used to capture video on a digital camera but with longer run times) and can run for up to 12 hours using a self-contained rechargeable battery pack. You can even monitor your home or business while away from any PC (high speed Internet connection required) using specialized software that can remotely access your security/surveillance system from any location.

If you've ever setup a satellite television receiver, configured a home computer network, or simply just upgraded your existing entertainment system to home theater, you can learn how to install your own CCTV security system.

There are a number of reasons why someone would be interested in purchasing surveillance equipment and there are many situations where the equipment is a vital and necessary tool for accomplishing the task at hand. However, most (if not all) states have laws and/or limitations in place regarding the use of surveillance equipment, so know the rules and remember that it is ultimately the users and/or purchasers responsibility to ascertain the legality of its use before engaging in this type of activity.

Daniel L. Williams is an Alabama author specializing in surveillance technology and its uses in the public and private sectors

I found a mini-cassette tape with strange, exciting things on it. What should I do with it?

The first side has a man singing House of the Rising Sun, and then what sounds like the same man listing states, cities, and a series of numbers after each. What could these numbers be? He states several cities in Minnesota. On the other side of the tape is about ten minutes of what sounds like a couple having sex, and then a recording of a country music radio station in Alabama. They have an advertisement for a Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers tour, so I know it was recorded around the eighties. IS THIS SOME FAMOUS FOLK ARTIST'S OLD TAPE!? CAN I PAY FOR COLLEGE WITH THIS!?!

Sounds like one of the tapes we made as kids with a stereo and a microphone....but the sex part would be good to have if ur ever playing with urself and need audio stimulation.

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Forester Sisters

Dec 30, 2008 music cassettes

Forester Sisters

A Tourist's Guide to the Natural Sights of Oregon

Nature, the predominant element around which life in Oregon revolves, results in the state’s topographical diversity and rugged, natural beauty, and dictates the experiences the tourist is likely to have.

The 362 mile long coast, for instance, comprised of rain forests, sand dunes, black sand beaches, and unique rock formations, is splintered by some dozen rivers, which flow into the Pacific.  The spine of the Coast Range and the Klamath Mountains provides a westerly skeleton, while the Columbia River defines the border between Washington and Oregon in the north.  The Cascade Mountains, black basalt formations densely carpeted with thick, green forests and capped with snow covered volcanoes, cradle alpine lakes and a national park, and extend form Mt. Hood in the north to Hayden Mountain in the south, serving to separate the western half of the state with its central high desert plateau.  In the northeast, the 10,000-foot Wallowa Mountains invert themselves into 6,600-foot-deep Hells Canyon, the world’s deepest river carved gorge.

Abundant vineyards produce an array of excellent wines, while locally grown marrionberries figure in Oregon cooking, along with the bounty of the land’s fruits and vegetables and the rivers’ salmon.

Columbia River Gorge

Formed by volcanic activity and both basalt lava and glacial floods, the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, spanning 80 miles from Troutdale in the west to the Dalles in the east, and encompassing 292,000 acres on both the Washington and Oregon sides, had been created by Congress in 1986.  The Columbia River itself, at 1,243 miles in length, is the second largest such artery in the continental United States and the only nearly sea level passage through the mountain range stretching between Canada and Mexico.  Originating in British Columbia, it flows through the mountains, before turning south and finally west where it releases 250,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Pacific.  Topographically featuring Douglas fir, hemlock, and western red cedar in the west, the gorge transforms into drier pine forest and grassland in the east.

Its primary Native American residents, the “Watlala,” who had been more commonly known as the “Cascades,” had lived on both sides of the river between Cascade Locks and Sandy River, using it for sustenance and trade by fishing for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and eel.  The land provided berries and roots and the nearby mountains facilitated hunting for deer and elk.  Living in structures made of cedar planks, the Watlala seasonally traveled down the river to fish and gather plant foods, such as “wapato” and “camas,” in cedar carved canoes, while wood and mountain sheep horns had provided the raw materials for tools, bowls, and pots.  Wrap twined baskets sported intricate decorations of nature, people, and animals.

Controlling the portage round Cascade Falls, which had been too treacherous for canoe or boat passage, they collected tolls in the form of traded goods in exchange for access.

The Watlala signed Willamette Valley Treaty ceded their southern bank of the Columbia River to the US in 1855, and they had subsequently been relocated to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation two years later.

Of the gorge’s numerous waterfalls, Multnomah Falls, plummeting almost 620 feet from its origin on Larch Mountain, constitutes the second-highest year-round waterfall in the US.  “Multnomah,” translating as “those closer to the water,” with “water” referring to the Columbia River itself, cascades down a cliff in which five flows of Yakima basalt are visible, and its spray, freezing in early-winter and melting in late-spring, causes the rock over which it travels to crack and break away.  The falls are accessed by several hiking trails.

The adjacent, Cascadian style, natural stone Multnomah Falls Lodge, designed by architect Albert E. Doyle in 1925 to serve travelers arriving by car, train, or steamboat, sits on land donated by the Oregon and Washington Railroad and Navigation Company to the city of Portland.  The lodge’s east end, which includes the later added Forest Service Visitor’s Center in 1929, had preceded its post war remodeling and 1946 reopening.  On April 22, 1981, the lodge, along with the first 1.1 miles of its Larch Mountain trail, had been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the day facility sports two second floor, fireplace and stone dining rooms overlooking the falls and the Columbia River.  An extensive gift shop is located on the main level.

The Columbia River Interpretive Center, located across the Columbia River spanned, erector set appearing Bridge of the Gods in Stevenson, Washington, provides snapshots of life in the area in a modern, two level museum, with exhibits such as a horse drawn buckboard from 1890, a wooden fish wheel, a 1921 log carrying Mack truck, an 1895 Corliss steam engine used to drive saw carriages and conveyors in a Cascade Locks lumber mill, hand crafted canoes, and a 1917 Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplane, which had facilitated local transportation.

Further east, and back on the Oregon side, the Columbia Gorge Hotel, built on a scenic cliff overlooking the Columbia River, is a stately, neo-Morish structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the US Department of Interior unofficially dubbed the “Waldorff of the West.”  Constructed in 1921 by timber tycoon Simon Benson as a tribute to America’s post-war prosperity, it had hosted social and political dignitaries, presidents such as Coolidge and Roosevelt, movie stars like Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino, and musicians from the Big Bands, having played an integral role during the Roaring Twenties when Model T Fords had traveled the roads and steamers had plied the rivers.  Voted one of the world’s top 500 hotels by Conde Nast magazine, the hotel, sitting on meticulously manicured, tiny waterfall dotted grounds, features an elegant, chandelier and fireplace adorned lobby and restaurant.

The Mount Hood Railroad, located a short distance from the hotel, traces its origins to 1905 when Utah lumberman David Eccles laid track in order to transport timber between the forest and his lumber mill by a steam engine powered logging train, and today offers daily excursions along the 8.5 mile stretch between Hood River and Odell through predominantly forested and fruit orchard topography and less frequent runs the full 22 miles to Parkdale, gateway to Mt. Hood.

Mt. Hood

Mt. Hood, named after British admiral Samuel Hood in 1792 and part of the Cascade Mountains, is an inactive volcano whose last, although minor, eruption, occurred between 1845 and 1865.  At 11,235 feet, it is Oregon’s tallest peak.  Glacier and river sculpted over the years, the snow covered mountain, rising above Trillum Lake, features a 50-degree slope at its last, 2,000 foot rise, and offers year round hiking and skiing.

Its story, however, is every bit that of the lodge designated “Timberline” and nestled on its south slope at the 6,000 foot level.  The result of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the federal agency created in 1933 to provide gainful employment to Americans who had been rendered idle by the Great Depression, it had been constructed by a predominantly inexperienced workforce which had used natural, Oregon indigenous material.

Its initial site survey, made in the spring of 1936 under 14 foot snow accumulations and only accessible by a primitive road which terminated a half mile from the actual location, yielded to the first drawings and subsequent groundbreaking on June 11 of a European chateau and alpine style lodge designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood and constructed entirely of gray, almost rock-resembling wood whose roof line echoed that of the steep mountain slope behind it.

Oregon had provided its foundation in the literal sense by supplying the mountain it had been built on and the natural materials which had been severed from their wombs and reduced to the individual buildings blocks which had been intricately reassembled into the lodge itself, inclusive of the forest supplied wood for its exterior structure and interior furniture and carvings, and the mountainside- and quarry yielding andesite stone for its walls and fireplaces.

Featuring a hexagonal core known as the “head house,” which had been inspired by the outline of the mountain peak behind it, and a single, angled wing extending from either of its sides, it had been designed as an extension of, as opposed to obstruction to, its surroundings.

Completed in only a 15 month period, it had been dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 28, 1937 and opened to the public the following February.

The hexagonally shaped head house, subdivided into the lower lobby, upper lobby, and mezzanine, features a truncated, 55 foot high “timberline” arch supported by carved sides and a top crossbeam, in the center of which is a six sided stone chimney which sports three, railroad track andiron adorned fireplaces.  Hexagonal ponderosa pine columns, each weighing seven tons and milled from a single tree, surround the lodge, while Oregon white oak provides its floor planks.  The hexagonal pattern is repeated in the hand forged wrought iron chandeliers and floor lamps, and floor to ceiling windows (attempt to) provide views through the 21 foot high snow banks.  Some 820 pieces of wooden, hand crafted furnishings and carvings were made in the WPA woodworking shop in Portland.

The Cascade Dining Room, located off the main lobby and thresholded by wrought iron gates made in the WPA blacksmith shop, exudes rustic, early-1900s elegance with a polished, wooden floor; a wood beamed ceiling; a relief carving adorned stone fireplace entitled “Forest Scene,” and a bar.

Guest rooms, varying in size and appointment from bunk beds to fireplace suites, are rustic with heavy wooden doors; wrought iron latches; leather-and-iron lamps; heavy, wooden beds; and knotty pine panelings.

Timberline Lodge, the only public building of its size constructed entirely by hand with original craft work in wood, wrought iron, mosaic, painting, and carved linoleum, and, since 1978, a National Historic Landmark, is every bit a “sight” as an overnight lodge.  It serves some two million annual visitors, only a small percentage of whom are actually skiers.

Returning to a roaring fire which castes warmth and light into the wooden lobby from its central stone fireplace after a day of skiing and enjoying award winning cuisine in the rustically elegant Cascade Dining Room, and then cacooning oneself in quilts in a knotty pine paneled guest room on the other side of whose wall the half, snow-buried pine trees surround the base of Mount Hood whose jagged, black granite, snow blanketed peak is periodically shrouded in cloud and mist throughout the night, is a quintessential Oregon experience.

Central Oregon

Because the Cascade Mountains mostly drain traditional storm fronts of their moisture, and therefore provide distinct climactic zones on either of their sides, Central Oregon, to the east of them, forms a high desert plateau and enjoys 300 days of sunshine, as contrasted with the rain drenched coast.  Access is via winding, ascending Route 20 through the dense, needle thin ponderosa and lodgepole pine of Willamette National Forest, over Tombstone and Santiam Passes, and finally through Deschutes National Forest, all of which are often shrouded in low-altitude cloud, and lead to an area of snow capped mountains, 150 mountain lakes, and 500 miles of rivers.  They afford a variety of recreational opportunities, including golfing, fishing, biking, horseback riding, hiking, climbing, rafting, and skiing.  Bend, an accommodations base and once a booming timber town, capitalizes on the area’s attractions with hotels, resorts, restaurants, and services.  The area is alternatively served by nearby Redmond Airport.

Sisters, one of Central Oregon’s attractions, is a quintessential western town of about 1,000 with 1880s style storefronts and wooden boardwalks named after the Three Sisters Mountains in the southwest.  Initially accessed by trails forged through the Santiam Pass to the high desert by those hoping to strike it rich in the gold mines of Eastern Oregon and Idaho, it had developed into a small town after the trails had evolved into wagon roads.  Wood from the surrounding pine forests had established lumber as its principle economic activity, although tourism plays an increasingly important role.  Bronco Billy’s Saloon, built in 1912, is an historically important building in Sisters.

The High Desert Museum, located a few miles south of Bend on Highway 97, is a modern, continually expanding facility which showcases the wildlife and landscapes of eight western states in both indoor and outdoor exhibits, including those of western exploration and settlement, the Columbia River plateau Indians, a “desertarium,” an 1880 homestead ranch, a working sawmill, and a raptor center.

The area’s geology can be studied in nearby Newberry National Volcanic Monument.  One of the largest “shield”-shaped volcanoes in the Lower 48 states and located along the Northwest Rift zone of faults, the 500 square mile Newberry Caldera, whose most recent eruption, the Big Obsidian Flow, occurred 1,300 years ago, cradles two trout and salmon abundant lakes: Paulina Lake, at 250 feet one of Oregon’s deepest, and 180-foot-deep East Lake, are both fed by hot springs below them.  Once believed to have existed as single entities, Paulina and East Lakes had been divided by pumice and water deposits 6,200 years ago.

Paulina Peak, the crater’s highest at 7,985 feet, provides views of the High Desert plateau and the Cascade Mountains.

The Deschutes River, a federally designated Wild and Scenic River, flows through the monument’s northwest corner, and offers fishing, kayaking, and white water rafting, while more than 100 miles of trails, interspersing the monument, facilitate hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, skiing, and snowmobiling.  Area wildlife includes deer, elk, black bear, ducks, osprey, geese, tundra swans, and bald eagles.

Aside from the caldera, three separate areas can be visited.

The Lava Lands Visitor Center, the first of these, depicts Central Oregon’s geology, archaeology, history, and fauna.  Ranger-led interpretive hikes take visitors through the volcanic landscape.  500 foot high Lava Butte, whose crater had been formed 7,000 years ago when it had erupted and spewed lava over a nine square mile area, is accessible by a perimeter road and affords views of the Newberry Volcano and Cascade Mountain Range.

The Lava River Cave, a one mile long lava tube, had been created when a river of molten lava had formed a channel whose sides hardened, creating a roof, but the hot lava had continued to flow through the tube, leaving it hollow.  Its interior temperature is now a constant 42 degrees Fahrenheit.

Finally, the Lava Cast Forest had been created when Newberry Volcano vent originating lava had flowed through a miniature ponderosa pine forest, enveloping the trees and forming molds round their now burned bases when they had cooled.  A one mile trail leads through the forest, which is being progressively reclaimed by young pines.

Aviation-Related Northwest Oregon

Northwest Oregon features two significant sights, which not only center round aviation, but also retain the state’s nature oriented theme.

The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, the first of these, had been created by Delford M Smith, founder of Evergreen International Aviation, and his son, Captain Michael King Smith, who had served as Second Lieutenant in the US Air Force and had been an F-15 Fighter pilot and the head of the 123rd Fighter Squadron of the Oregon Air National Guard.  Centerpiece of the museum’s three modern, A-frame, aviation, space, and IMAX buildings, located in McMinnville, is the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the world’s largest transport flying boat, designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company entirely of natural, laminated birch wood due to World War II-imposed metal usage restrictions and hence given the unofficial nickname of “Spruce Goose.”

Designed to fulfill the 1942 US Department of War requirement for a very large aircraft to transport personnel and war material across the Atlantic where aircraft had hitherto been frequent targets of German U-boats, it had originally been intended as one of three stipulated by the contract, which had dictated a two-year development period.  Powered by eight, 3,000 hp Pratt and Whitney Wasp Major radial engines, the H-4, with a 218.8 foot overall length and a 319.11 foot wingspan, accommodated 750 fully equipped troops in its cavernous, dual deck fuselage and had a 400,000 pound maximum take off weight.  The only airframe ever completed, and thus serving as the prototype, it had first flown on November 2, 1947 when Howard Hughes himself had covered less than a mile at a 70 foot altitude while maintaining a 135 mph air speed.  It became its only flight.

The museum retains its natural theme by cultivating its own vineyard in front of it appropriately named “Spruce Goose Vineyards,” and a wine tasting room and gift shop, where one can sample the wines of the area’s abundant other vineyards, is located in the aviation building.

Of the two hangars constructed here, Hangar B had been the first to have been completed in the spring of 1943, followed one month later by Hangar A.  Housing Squadron ZP-33’s eight K ships, it features six, 30 ton, railroad track guided door sections covering the 120 foot high, 220 foot wide opening which thresholds the 15 story high, seven acre internal space.  The 251 foot blimps, attaining lift with 425,000 cubic foot helium bags, could remain aloft for three days and cover 2,000 miles.

After the air station had been decommissioned in 1948, the two hangars had been used for several purposes, including those of hay bail storage, and the material in Hangar A had unexplainably sparked and ignited in 1992, destroying it.  Two years later, Hangar B had been developed into the current, nationally historic aviation museum displaying a vintage collection of restored, exclusively flyable aircraft.

Here, wood, the natural element of Oregon’s forests, had been used to build the hangars in which dirigibles, using the natural gas of helium to attain lift, had been stored, in an ultimate act of history preserving history, and of nature serving man, which is, in essence, the story of Oregon.

About the Author

A graduate of Long Island University-C.W. Post Campus with a summa-cum-laude BA Degree in Comparative Languages and Journalism, I have subsequently earned the Continuing Community Education Teaching Certificate from the Nassau Association for Continuing Community Education (NACCE) at Molloy College, the Travel Career Development Certificate from the Institute of Certified Travel Agents (ICTA) at LIU, and the AAS Degree in Aerospace Technology at the State University of New York – College of Technology at Farmingdale. Having amassed almost three decades in the airline industry, I managed the New York-JFK and Washington-Dulles stations at Austrian Airlines, created the North American Station Training Program, served as an Aviation Advisor to Farmingdale State University of New York, and devised and taught the Airline Management Certificate Program at the Long Island Educational Opportunity Center. A freelance author, I have written some 70 books of the short story, novel, nonfiction, essay, poetry, article, log, curriculum, training manual, and textbook genre in English, German, and Spanish, having principally focused on aviation and travel, and I have been published in book, magazine, newsletter, and electronic Web site form. I am a writer for Cole Palen’s Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. I have made some 350 lifetime trips by air, sea, rail, and road.

Does anyone have the lyrics to "I fell in love again last night " by The Forester Sisters?

please post if you can find it. thanks

I fell in love again last night
You keep doing everything just right
You've got me wrapped around your fingers
And every morning our love still lingers
I fell in love again last night

When you kissed me the way you've always done
Like the first time you were with me and my heart just came undone
Lying here this morning boy I know you're still the one

I fell in love again last night
You keep doing everything just right
You're the reason my heart keeps beating
And every morning it keeps repeating
I fell in love again last night

We were talking about some future plans
And how far we've come together since the night it all began
Then you reached out to touch me and guess what happened then

I fell in love again last night
You keep doing everything just right
You're the reason my heart keeps beating
And every morning it keeps repeating
I fell in love again last night
In love again last night
I fell in love again last night

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Cassette Tape Soundtrack

Dec 30, 2008 music cassettes

Cassette Tape Soundtrack

When looking to get into the world of analogue reel to reel recorders there are one or two questions that will come to mind.  Are all recorders and players compatible? What different tape speeds are there? What tape sizes are there and what is the significance? And why are analogue recorders still so popular.

Reel to reel recorders come in a variety of recording formats, shapes and sizes. And although most of the major manufacturers no longer make these appliances there are many still available, maintenance is easy, parts are freely available and there are plenty of specialist repairers around.   

Professional players are usually stereo half-track recorders for  stereo recording, meaning that the left channel occupies  half the tape width, and the right channel the other half. Whereas, players intended for domestic use, tended to be quarter track machines meaning they recorded two channels in one direction, each track occupying slightly less than a quarter of the total tape width, and two in the other when the tape was turned over.

As for compatibility, in normal circumstances, a half-track machine won't be able to play quarter-track tapes, and, similarly, quarter track machines won't accommodate half track tapes. However, if the machine is fitted with additional heads it can accommodate the alternative format. Some reel to reel models came with this  facility as an option.

Speeds can range between 1.875 and 15 ips (inches per second) although on rare occasions 30ips has been known to be used, but only on the bigger multi tracks and half-inch mastering machines. Domestic machines would typically have two speeds of  3.75 and 7.5 ips, although the option of a slower speed (1.875 ips) was common on a lot of machines and some analogue players offered three speeds instead of two.

Professional machines use typical speeds of 7.5 and 15 ips.

Generally speaking 1/4inch mono or stereo appliances were the norm for domestic applications, while the professionals used quarter inch, half inch, one inch and two inch mono, stereo and multi-track tape machines and because of the quality of sound produced, still do.

There were many recorder manufacturers in the heyday of the analogue tape machines, such as Akai, Studer/Revox, Ampex, Pioneer, Teac and many others, but the cheaper cassette players came into being and many opted for this easier to use option. The advantages of a reel to reel tape recorder, however, is the quality of recorded sound and the ability and relative ease of editing your tapes

A good many of these machines have had a hard life, especially the machines that have been used professionally and, although parts are relatively available a cheap machine can become expensive . However, good quality machines are widely available and are still immensely popular amongst people who cherish the more harmonious and fuller sound of these  players.

If your are looking to get into the world of Reel to Reel Tape Recorders check out Reel-2-Reel.com and witness how popular Analogue Reel to Reel Tape Recorders are.

How do I figure out which Phantom of the Opera soundtrack I was listening to?

Okay, so when I was really really little (like, three or four; I'm nineteen now), my parents went to see Phantom of the Opera and bought a cassette tape with a bunch of the songs on it. I loved that tape, and when I got my own car that only had a cassette tape player, I listened to it all the time. Unfortunately, I got into a car accident and the cassette tape wound up stuck in the player, so I couldn't get it out.

I'd like to get that same tape, only in CD form. However, how am I supposed to figure out which one I had? I don't have the case anymore so I don't remember who sang in it (though I'm almost certain Michael Crawford was one of the people), and I'm afraid that if I just guess and buy a random CD off of Amazon that it will be the wrong one. Is there anywhere I can listen to bits and pieces of the songs so I can figure out if it was the same recording as the one I had on cassette or not?

yea, try iTunes or youtube it..

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