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"Deep River Blues" Doc Watson

You tell 'em Marshmama.

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Radiohead Bluegrass - Chris Thile - Morning Bell

Chris Thile is a musical savant. A talent of the highest order.

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Obama faces racism in West Virginia

Yeah, but you South Carolina folks are beneath us North Carolinians. Just look at the map.
As an old general surgeon from the NC mountains told me one time, "son, yankees are like hemorrhoids. They are a pain in the ass, and once they come down, they never go back up."

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"I started a Joke" The Bee Gees

*beg
One of the most unusual hit songs from the 60s. One of the most unusual voices from that period as well.

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Obama faces racism in West Virginia

This reminds me of Jay Leno's "jaywalking" segments. You can go out on any street USA and within a half-hour find sufficient ignorant people, edit them exclusively into your interview and make any city USA look ridiculous.

I went to college in the Appalachian mountains. Those folks have different knowledge there. They know engines, generators, growing stuff, distillation using a car radiator, (whoops, that could get me shot)

I grew up in the south, in a rural integrated community. My high school was 40% African-American. Then I moved to a midwestern metropolitan area where the races don't even interface at all. The whites all send their kids to private schools, leaving the African-Americans a decrepit, underfunded public school system.

The amazing thing is, the folks around here ask me "how could you stand living in the south with all that racism? So I always ask them, "how many African-Americans were in your graduating class?" Standard answer - "none."

And Doc_M is right, if you look at a regular US map, with counties shaded by Republican vs. Democratic vote in 2004, it's clear that urban areas vote predominately Democratic and rural areas Republican. One's not better than the other, they're just different.

City folk and country folk are different. They are equally uncomfortable in each other's environs. Just look at Mrs. Douglas from "Green Acres", totally out of her element. "Fresh air....Time Square..."

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Fire Marshall Bill has been burned

*discard

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Dog likes to chase cat........fish

Now you've made me hungry. When do we eat?

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Richard Feynman Physics Lecture

I loved this guy. When people ask, "who would you most like to have as a dinner guest?" he would have to rank right up there for me. I think he was one of the most capable minds in history.

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Bayer's Trasylol kills 1,000 Patients per month

I would love to have a medical channel. Reporting of this type can be very biased and misleading. I say CAN be.

I have tremendous respect for Dr. Mangano. He has done some REALLY important work. However, it's important to carefully listen to what he said about the drug. He said about his study, "it's shown a TREND towards increased risk of death in-hospital." Medical researchers use the word "trend" to indicate the association between the drug and increased risk of death did not reach a p = .05, which is the standard measure of causation in medical literature. A probability ratio of .05 simply means there is a 5% probability that what you observe is occurring by chance alone.
The FDA mirrors this statement regarding the association not reaching a level of "statistical significance."
http://www.fda.gov/Cder/drug/early_comm/aprotinin.htm

However, I don't know the probability number they did come up with, and evidently it was close enough to .05 that they began to assume causation.

What the studies did confirm was that aprotinin was effective at reducing blood loss during heart surgery, and it was associated with less blood transfusion. If you look at that on the surface, it sounds good because bleeding and transfusion is a significant cause of surgical morbidity and death.

The title of this video includes "Trasydol kills thousands" The commentator clearly states, "Trasydol MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED to the deaths of thousands of patients." So, the title bends a possibility to a proof. Further, in the majority of cases, it is nearly impossible to say the drug was the ACTUAL cause of the complication in any given case. Was the surgeon who operated on this man trying to deflect blame away from shoddy surgical technique. Believe me, physicians are all too quick to point the finger at someone else.

And, no open heart surgery is routine. It averages around 1 death per hundred cases, hardly routine.

All that being said, I'm not going to defend BAYER. It sounds as if they acted in an irresponsible manner. These days it often appears drug companies wait too long when a "trend" is developing. It seems they are content to wait until they hear the studies have shown a p value of .05. Profits over probabilities. It's a disgrace.

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The OS X desktop as a music video

Makes me feel such a computer media cripple. That's great stuff.

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Documentary by 17 yr old recreates the "doll test" from 50s (skip to 3:20)

Well done video. As they mature, every child is influenced by the prevailing cultural norm of beauty. Take those "foot-binders" in China. The children's feet are bound tight during their growth spurt, so they end up with tiny, deformed feet. When the adult women are interviewed and asked if they would rather curtail the practice they say "no, I can't imagine myself with big ugly feet."

Same with the lip disks, the neck rings, etc.

But, I think the idealistic view of a multi-cultural society interacting as one, free of stereotyping and prejudice is nearly delusional. People want desperately to retain their cultural identity. To do so, they necessarily isolate themselves, to some degree, from other cultural groups. Whether it's people of Jewish, African-American, Hispanic, or European descent, on the whole they prefer to interact with individuals of similar heritage.

Will and Ariel Durant are my favorite historians to quote, "It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people; circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type. The Englishman does not so much make English civilization as it makes him..."

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choggie

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Whoops,
Choggie this one is dead.

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here he is in the B&W days, same song, chipper as ever.....
http://www.videosift.com/video/Doc-Watson-Deep-River-Blues

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"Deep River Blues" Doc Watson

Thanks Choggie,
Back in the 70s, I was in a bar in Blowing Rock, NC (about 10 miles from Doc and Merle's home), and took a seat at the bar next to Merle. He was three sheets to the wind. We were both there to see Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs. Merle liked all kinds of music. He looked at me and said, "that's one good m*****f***er."
When Merle died in that tractor roll over, it hit us all. Obviously, Doc was devastated. These days, Doc tours with Merle's son, but, I have to say, he's no Merle on the guitar.

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LadyDeath (Member Profile)

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Keep posting and I'll keep upvoting. The sift is rife with testosterone. It needs tempering in the WORST way.

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Wizard Of Oz-(Pink Floyd Song) -Dark Side of the Rainbow 3

Nice, but wouldn't a song by Toto have been more appropriate?

"I bless the rainnnnnssss down in Topeka."

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