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16:17:00 01/31/12
TBJ Video: NBA players' go-to Super Bowl snacks
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Back by popular demand, The Jones re-send Australian correspondent, Leigh Ellis, into the locker room to confuse NBA players with his accent. Leigh's mission this round: To find out what the guys are cookin' up for the Super Bowl this Sunday. What's the most popular dish of choice? Does anyone even know how to cook? And, um, what the hell did Blazers forward Nicolas Batum just say? Enjoy the video, and enjoy The Big Game.
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19:00:30 12/28/11
Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011
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"Smokestack Lightnin'," with Hubert Sumlin backing Howlin' Wolf in 1964
This is the time of year when we're reminded of all the famous people who died over the last twelve months, a list which includes two of my favorite guitar players ( Hubert Sumlin and Cornell Dupree ). But there were also some notable non-human deaths in 2011, especially in the world of economic policy.
One of those deaths should have completely altered the political debate in Washington. The name of the deceased was "Austerity Economics," and it was first glimpsed in a 1921 paper by conservative economist Frank Wright. Austerity died of natural causes brought on by prolonged exposure to reality.
But the debate in Washington didn't change nearly enough after its passing. In the nation's capital, dead things still rule the night.
Why Austerity?
"Austerity economics" backers claim that today's economic woes can only be fixed by dramatic reductions in government spending, which will lead to increased private-sector confidence and therefore to greater investment and growth.
But it's never worked. And if investors have lost confidence in the U.S. government's fiscal stability, they're sure not acting that way. There hasn't been this much demand for Treasury bonds since the government began tracking it twenty years ago, and they haven't performed as well since the go-go 1990s.
It's easy to understand austerity's attraction for power elites inside and outside of government. The people who suffer from austerity budgets aren't the kinds of people they know personally, since they're typically public employees like teachers, police, firefighters and the administrators of social programs; people who need government assistance, like the poor; and middle-class people with the temerity to either grow old or become disabled.
Austerity's attraction became even greater in the U.S. because once it became conventional wisdom that tax increases on the wealthy was "politically infeasible." That made it a program whose sole purpose was to cut government spending, lowering the pressure to increase taxes on the wealthy from today's historically low levels.
For a one-percenter, what's not to love?
Austerity Comes of Age
The idea's been around in one form or another since that 1921 paper, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been imposing it on Third World nations for decades.
But 2009 was the year that austerity really came of age. That was the year that a wealthy stockbroker's son named David Cameron began campaigning for Prime Minister of Great Britain on an explicitly pro-austerity platform.
It was also the year that Cameron helped to form a group named European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) dedicated to electing like-minded politicians across Europe and helping them collaborate on ways to slash government spending. It was also the year that right-leaning Angela Merkel won reelection as the Chancellor of Germany with a stronger mandate than she'd been given in her first term.
With Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, Great Britain was the only major European power not yet in the hands of the corporate-backed austerity crowd.
The Global Sado-Erotic Thrill Machine
That changed with Cameron's election as Prime Minister in May 2010, an event that threw pro-austerity Americans into throes of near-erotic ecstasy. And if that sounds like hyperbole, consider conservative Anne Appelbaum's reaction to Cameron's budget in September of 2010: >
Vicious cuts." "Savage cuts." "Swingeing (sic) cuts." The language that the British use to describe their new government's spending-reduction policy is apocalyptic in the extreme. The ministers in charge of the country's finances are known as "axe-wielders" who will be "hacking" away at the budget. Articles about the nation's finances are filled with talk of blood, knives, and amputation.
And the British love it.
What can I say? There are people who collect serial-killer memorabilia, too. But Appelbaum wasn't just speaking for herself. It became unacceptable for any politician in Washington, Democrat or Republican, to advocate anything other than an austerity budget for the United States.
And it was more than an economic strategy to its backers. Austerity became a way to demonize those who had suffered most from the banking abuses and self-indulgences of the wealthy, a totemic "blame the victim" response that turned the political debate into a grotesque inversion of morality. Again, Appelbaum: >
"Not only is austerity being touted as the solution to Britain's economic woes; it is also being described as the answer to the country's moral failings."
Bad Metaphors vs. Good Economists
The Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, jumped onto the bandwagon with both feet by repeatedly lecturing Americans on the need for government to stop "spending beyond its means." Obama recycled the popular conservative metaphor of a family that has to sit around the kitchen table and decide how much money it has to spend.
That's one of the worst metaphors in modern politics. Does a family establish its own currency -- especially one that has the unique position of the dollar? Can a family borrow money at rates so low they're effectively less than zero? Would a family let Grandma go hungry because Junior bought too many Porsches out of the family kitty and then gambled it away on lousy mortgage investments?
The world's top economists, those who had successfully predicted the crisis of 2008, tried telling the rest of the world what was wrong with the idea: Joblessness and consumer fears were killing any chance of real recovery. More short-term spending was needed to get the economy moving again. Austerity would make things worse, not better.
But nobody listened. Austerity's S%M-like attraction had the world's elites in its grip.
Death of a Delusion
And then something else came into the picture: Reality.
Cameron's austerity budget had a shattering effect on the already-struggling British economy. His government's financial stability was downgraded five times during his first year in power and retail sales had fallen 2.5 percent. Household income was projected to fall an additional 2 percent if his austerity plans were carried forward. Britain's modest employment gains were reversed, youth unemployment reached record levels, and income inequality was the worst it had been in more than half a century.
Anne Appelbaum's erotic dreams had become Great Britain's nightmare.
As Europe's ruling austerity class pushed forward with their plans, even the IMF tried to dissuade them. It was clear to anyone who wasn't blinded by ideology or political cynicism that austerity economics was a failed program. Even in countries like Greece, where government was far graver than elsewhere, the austerity programs imposed from outside threatened to destabilize society while other reasonable measures like improved tax collection were still not taken seriously enough.
And now the entire Eurozone hangs in the balance. Bankers became wealthy by treating governments as if they were mortgages, lending recklessly and pocketing their fees without considering the long-term reliability of their loans. European leaders insisted for months they were take the kind of sensible steps that should've been taken in the United States by requiring bankers to accept at least part of the losses for the bad loans they had issed.
That plan was quietly dropped last month. "Austerity economics" never calls for austerity from those who have gotten rich by being irresponsible, only from those who didn't benefit from it at all.
The Afterlife
President Obama has dropped his austerity rhetoric, at least for the time being, but the Republicans have not. Listening to Mitt Romney discuss economics is like having a doctor wave a dead chicken over your head and saying he's decided to cast a spell on you rather than operate on that thing they found in your X-rays.
Aside from the bill introduced this month by the House Progressive Caucus to almost no media attention, there's no comprehensive plan for dropping this country's ineffective austerity strategy and replacing it with an agenda that works.
Rational solutions to our economic problems are being ignored. There won't be a real debate about alternatives to austerity until an entire political party, not just part of it, adopts this kind of program. Until then there will be chaos. And where there is chaos, austerity's powerful advocates can step in and take charge.
Austerity economics died in 2011 and is survived by the British, German, and French governments as well as the GOP and large portions of the Democratic Party. Instead of sending flowers, the family has asked the public to abandon all hopes of future economic growth.
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19:00:30 12/28/11
Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 19:00:30 12/28/11
"Smokestack Lightnin'," with Hubert Sumlin backing Howlin' Wolf in 1964
This is the time of year when we're reminded of all the famous people who died over the last twelve months, a list which includes two of my favorite guitar players ( Hubert Sumlin and Cornell Dupree ). But there were also some notable non-human deaths in 2011, especially in the world of economic policy.
One of those deaths should have completely altered the political debate in Washington. The name of the deceased was "Austerity Economics," and it was first glimpsed in a 1921 paper by conservative economist Frank Wright. Austerity died of natural causes brought on by prolonged exposure to reality.
But the debate in Washington didn't change nearly enough after its passing. In the nation's capital, dead things still rule the night.
Why Austerity?
"Austerity economics" backers claim that today's economic woes can only be fixed by dramatic reductions in government spending, which will lead to increased private-sector confidence and therefore to greater investment and growth.
But it's never worked. And if investors have lost confidence in the U.S. government's fiscal stability, they're sure not acting that way. There hasn't been this much demand for Treasury bonds since the government began tracking it twenty years ago, and they haven't performed as well since the go-go 1990s.
It's easy to understand austerity's attraction for power elites inside and outside of government. The people who suffer from austerity budgets aren't the kinds of people they know personally, since they're typically public employees like teachers, police, firefighters and the administrators of social programs; people who need government assistance, like the poor; and middle-class people with the temerity to either grow old or become disabled.
Austerity's attraction became even greater in the U.S. because once it became conventional wisdom that tax increases on the wealthy was "politically infeasible." That made it a program whose sole purpose was to cut government spending, lowering the pressure to increase taxes on the wealthy from today's historically low levels.
For a one-percenter, what's not to love?
Austerity Comes of Age
The idea's been around in one form or another since that 1921 paper, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been imposing it on Third World nations for decades.
But 2009 was the year that austerity really came of age. That was the year that a wealthy stockbroker's son named David Cameron began campaigning for Prime Minister of Great Britain on an explicitly pro-austerity platform.
It was also the year that Cameron helped to form a group named European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) dedicated to electing like-minded politicians across Europe and helping them collaborate on ways to slash government spending. It was also the year that right-leaning Angela Merkel won reelection as the Chancellor of Germany with a stronger mandate than she'd been given in her first term.
With Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, Great Britain was the only major European power not yet in the hands of the corporate-backed austerity crowd.
The Global Sado-Erotic Thrill Machine
That changed with Cameron's election as Prime Minister in May 2010, an event that threw pro-austerity Americans into throes of near-erotic ecstasy. And if that sounds like hyperbole, consider conservative Anne Appelbaum's reaction to Cameron's budget in September of 2010: >
Vicious cuts." "Savage cuts." "Swingeing (sic) cuts." The language that the British use to describe their new government's spending-reduction policy is apocalyptic in the extreme. The ministers in charge of the country's finances are known as "axe-wielders" who will be "hacking" away at the budget. Articles about the nation's finances are filled with talk of blood, knives, and amputation.
And the British love it.
What can I say? There are people who collect serial-killer memorabilia, too. But Appelbaum wasn't just speaking for herself. It became unacceptable for any politician in Washington, Democrat or Republican, to advocate anything other than an austerity budget for the United States.
And it was more than an economic strategy to its backers. Austerity became a way to demonize those who had suffered most from the banking abuses and self-indulgences of the wealthy, a totemic "blame the victim" response that turned the political debate into a grotesque inversion of morality. Again, Appelbaum: >
"Not only is austerity being touted as the solution to Britain's economic woes; it is also being described as the answer to the country's moral failings."
Bad Metaphors vs. Good Economists
The Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, jumped onto the bandwagon with both feet by repeatedly lecturing Americans on the need for government to stop "spending beyond its means." Obama recycled the popular conservative metaphor of a family that has to sit around the kitchen table and decide how much money it has to spend.
That's one of the worst metaphors in modern politics. Does a family establish its own currency -- especially one that has the unique position of the dollar? Can a family borrow money at rates so low they're effectively less than zero? Would a family let Grandma go hungry because Junior bought too many Porsches out of the family kitty and then gambled it away on lousy mortgage investments?
The world's top economists, those who had successfully predicted the crisis of 2008, tried telling the rest of the world what was wrong with the idea: Joblessness and consumer fears were killing any chance of real recovery. More short-term spending was needed to get the economy moving again. Austerity would make things worse, not better.
But nobody listened. Austerity's S%M-like attraction had the world's elites in its grip.
Death of a Delusion
And then something else came into the picture: Reality.
Cameron's austerity budget had a shattering effect on the already-struggling British economy. His government's financial stability was downgraded five times during his first year in power and retail sales had fallen 2.5 percent. Household income was projected to fall an additional 2 percent if his austerity plans were carried forward. Britain's modest employment gains were reversed, youth unemployment reached record levels, and income inequality was the worst it had been in more than half a century.
Anne Appelbaum's erotic dreams had become Great Britain's nightmare.
As Europe's ruling austerity class pushed forward with their plans, even the IMF tried to dissuade them. It was clear to anyone who wasn't blinded by ideology or political cynicism that austerity economics was a failed program. Even in countries like Greece, where government was far graver than elsewhere, the austerity programs imposed from outside threatened to destabilize society while other reasonable measures like improved tax collection were still not taken seriously enough.
And now the entire Eurozone hangs in the balance. Bankers became wealthy by treating governments as if they were mortgages, lending recklessly and pocketing their fees without considering the long-term reliability of their loans. European leaders insisted for months they were take the kind of sensible steps that should've been taken in the United States by requiring bankers to accept at least part of the losses for the bad loans they had issed.
That plan was quietly dropped last month. "Austerity economics" never calls for austerity from those who have gotten rich by being irresponsible, only from those who didn't benefit from it at all.
The Afterlife
President Obama has dropped his austerity rhetoric, at least for the time being, but the Republicans have not. Listening to Mitt Romney discuss economics is like having a doctor wave a dead chicken over your head and saying he's decided to cast a spell on you rather than operate on that thing they found in your X-rays.
Aside from the bill introduced this month by the House Progressive Caucus to almost no media attention, there's no comprehensive plan for dropping this country's ineffective austerity strategy and replacing it with an agenda that works.
Rational solutions to our economic problems are being ignored. There won't be a real debate about alternatives to austerity until an entire political party, not just part of it, adopts this kind of program. Until then there will be chaos. And where there is chaos, austerity's powerful advocates can step in and take charge.
Austerity economics died in 2011 and is survived by the British, German, and French governments as well as the GOP and large portions of the Democratic Party. Instead of sending flowers, the family has asked the public to abandon all hopes of future economic growth.
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05:01:23 12/07/11
Back By Popular Demand – The Lesbian Rangers
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The Lesbian Rangers (2005, 18 MB, 1:41 min.) Welcome to Reorientation 2005 (2005, 34.8 MB, 2:17 min.) Victory at The Rock (2005, 72.4 MB, 4:45 min.) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan are Winnipeg-based collaborators whose internationally acclaimed work addresses feminist, lesbian, and social concerns with tremendous wit. “The Lesbian Rangers” were founded in 1997, to [...]
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19:07:29 11/30/11
Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2
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Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2
Back by popular demand, in a second look at Digital Bookmaking Tools, author and book futurist Pete Meyers explores the existing options for creating digital books. Bring your questions and join in the discussion about what's best, what's easiest to use, and what's worth putting in your book-building toolkit. About Pete Meyers: Peter Meyers designs, speaks, and writes about digital books. Author of the forthcoming "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience". For more than two decades he's worked at the intersection of writing and technology. He co-founded Digital Learning Interactive, a pioneering multimedia textbook publisher (sold in 2004 to Thomson Learning). Peter has also written about the strange and wonderful effects of computers on mainstream culture for many publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Salon, and the Village Voice. During a five-year tour of duty at O'Reilly Media he worked in the Missing Manual group, serving as managing editor and associate publisher. Recent writing projects include "Enhanced Ebooks Today & Tomorrow: A Survey for Authors and Publishers" and "Best iPad Apps" (O'Reilly Media, 2010). He blogs at www.newkindofbook.com. Peter's undergraduate degree is from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature, and he has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives with his wife and two daughters in "upstate Manhattan" (aka Washington Heights). From: OreillyMedia Views: 358 3 ratings Time: 58:01 More in Science & Technology
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19:07:29 11/30/11
Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2
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Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2
Back by popular demand, in a second look at Digital Bookmaking Tools, author and book futurist Pete Meyers explores the existing options for creating digital books. Bring your questions and join in the discussion about what's best, what's easiest to use, and what's worth putting in your book-building toolkit. About Pete Meyers: Peter Meyers designs, speaks, and writes about digital books. Author of the forthcoming "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience". For more than two decades he's worked at the intersection of writing and technology. He co-founded Digital Learning Interactive, a pioneering multimedia textbook publisher (sold in 2004 to Thomson Learning). Peter has also written about the strange and wonderful effects of computers on mainstream culture for many publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Salon, and the Village Voice. During a five-year tour of duty at O'Reilly Media he worked in the Missing Manual group, serving as managing editor and associate publisher. Recent writing projects include "Enhanced Ebooks Today & Tomorrow: A Survey for Authors and Publishers" and "Best iPad Apps" (O'Reilly Media, 2010). He blogs at www.newkindofbook.com. Peter's undergraduate degree is from Harvard, where he studied American history and literature, and he has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives with his wife and two daughters in "upstate Manhattan" (aka Washington Heights). From: OreillyMedia Views: 358 3 ratings Time: 58:01 More in Science & Technology
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22:01:18 11/29/11
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street: Full Version, Almost 2 Hours Long!
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Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street: Full Version, Almost 2 Hours Long!
NOTE: REASON.TV ORIGINALLY RELEASED A VERSION OF THIS MOSTLY UNCUT VIDEO A FEW WEEKS AGO BUT DUE TO ERRORS ON OUR PART, WE HAD TO TAKE THE VIDEO DOWN AND RE-EDIT FOR AUDIO AND CLARITY. Back by popular demand, it's Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street. And this time, he's uncut, unfiltered, and unleashed! Last week, Reason.tv released an 18-minute video of investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. ( www.youtube.com ) Standing next to a sign reading "I Am The 1%, Let's Talk," Schiff debated, argued, and occasionally found common ground with the Occupiers. In response to the overwhelming demand for more Schiff at OWS, we're happy to release all the audible footage we've got - almost two hours worth. Beyond his ability to answer all questions, the most amazing thing is how Schiff wins the hearts and minds of many Occupy diehards by explaining the differences between cronyism and capitalism, the need for sound money, and why the government can't be trusted to regulate the very banks it bailed out. About 1 hour, 45 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of our videos and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel for automatic notification when new material goes live online. Check out Schiff's Euro Pacific Capital. www.europac.net Listen to his radio show online at www.schiffradio.com Buy his latest book, How an Economy Grows and Why ... From: ReasonTV Views: 16102 443 ratings Time: 01:48:29 More in News & Politics
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03:11:51 11/25/11
Introduction to JQuery
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 03:11:51 11/25/11
Back by popular demand, it's the Introduction to jQuery session. JQuery is the handy and amazing JavaScript library that powers Drupal's dynamic functionality like expandable fieldsets, autocomplete fields, and AJAX requests....
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22:58:18 11/11/11
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street (OWS): Uncut, Unfiltered, Unleashed!
[LESS INFO] 0 VIEWS | ADDED 22:58:18 11/11/11
Back by popular demand, it's Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street. And this time, he's uncut, unfiltered, and unleashed!Last week, Reason.tv released an 18-minute video of investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.
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20:35:34 11/04/11
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street (OWS): Uncut, Unfiltered, Unleashed!
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 20:35:34 11/04/11
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street (OWS): Uncut, Unfiltered, Unleashed!
Back by popular demand, it's Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street. And this time, he's uncut, unfiltered, and unleashed! Last week, Reason.tv released an 18-minute video of investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. ( www.youtube.com ) Standing next to a sign reading "I Am The 1%, Let's Talk," Schiff debated, argued, and occasionally found common ground with the Occupiers. In response to the overwhelming demand for more Schiff at OWS, we're happy to release all the audible footage we've got - almost two hours worth. Beyond his ability to answer all questions, the most amazing thing is how Schiff wins the hearts and minds of many Occupy diehards by explaining the differences between cronyism and capitalism, the need for sound money, and why the government can't be trusted to regulate the very banks it bailed out. About 1 hour, 45 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of our videos and subscribe to Reason.tv's YouTube channel for automatic notification when new material goes live online. Check out Schiff's Euro Pacific Capital. www.europac.net Listen to his radio show online at www.schiffradio.com Buy his latest book, How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes. http Produced by Anthony L. Fisher. Camera by Nathan Chaffetz. For Reason's coverage of the Occupy movement in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, go here ... From: ReasonTV Views: 8439 319 ratings Time: 01:48:41 More in News & Politics
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16:06:32 10/06/11
San Diego Opera Spotlight: Puccini's Madama Butterfly
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San Diego Opera's magnificent production of Puccini's beloved masterpeice is back by popular demand - and UCSD-TV again provides backstage access. Explore the creative process through rehearsal footage and interviews with the conductor, stage director and distinguished cast. Series: "San Diego Opera Spotlight" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 6562]
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14:45:27 09/22/11
How World Of Warcraft Should Have Ended
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How World Of Warcraft Should Have Ended
Are you tired of the daily grind? The Lich King is. There are many ways Arthas' tales should have ended. Here is how he got away from it all. Keep an eye out for some extra special guests (back by popular demand)! Be on the look out for new content every THURSDAY! Come back for behind the scenes, deleted clips, and more. Leave us a comment and spread the love by subscribing to our channel and/or give us a 'thumbs up'! From: HISHEdotcom Views: 719831 7113 ratings Time: 03:35 More in Shows
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19:14:12 09/08/11
How Captain America Should Have Ended
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How Captain America Should Have Ended
In this episode of How It Should Have Ended, we learn that Cap tends to be frigid when it comes to long-term relationships. Keep an eye out for some extra special guests (back by popular demand)! Be on the look out for new content every THURSDAY! Come back for behind the scenes, deleted clips, and more. Leave us a comment and spread the love by subscribing to our channel and/or give us a 'thumbs up'! For more like this, go to www.howitshouldhaveended.com From: HISHEdotcom Views: 2088905 18859 ratings Time: 03:59 More in Shows
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20:44:32 07/13/11
This Week in Web Design #26
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Back by popular demand, both Aure Gimon and the Sink Or Swim segment are back in the studio! The ThisWeekIn Web Design team create User Stories as another chapter in the Live Website Redesign.
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22:45:57 03/25/11
First Love - Piano
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"Composed by Hikaru Utada This was requested by Dan DeGuzman, Jr. from Washington USA, Who informed me that this song sold over five million copies from March to April 1999. First Love was not only the fastest selling debut album in Japanese history, but also had the highest initial first-week and overall sales for a debut album, achieving multi-platinum status in its first week of release. Utada would be noted in the Guinness Book of World Records 2000 for being the ""Most Popular Singer in Asia."" A month after the album First Love was released, the song ""First Love"" was released as a single, mostly because of popular demand, and sold 804,000 units cumulatively of its 8cm and 12cm version. In addition to the album reaching #1 status on the daily, weekly and monthly charts of the Oricon Top 200, Utada also broke the record for units sold of a single album in Japan by the year's end (over 7.650 million units), all by age 16, which record she still holds to this day. First Love is the most commercially successful debut CD album, and most commercially successful album overall by a Japanese artist, in Japanese music history, having sold over 10 million copies throughout Asia, with nearly 8 million copies sold in Japan alone. The year ended for Utada on a high note, being ranked #5 on Japanese radio station ""Tokio Hot 100 Airplay's"" Top 100 Artists of the 20th Century by the station and its listeners. Haven't heard this song before and it's awesome. Hope it made you think about your first love :) Lyrics : Once in a while You are in my mind I think about the days that we had And i dream that these would all come back to me If only you knew every moment in time Nothing goes on in my heart Just like your memories How I want here to be with you Once more You will always gonna be the one And you should know How I wish I could have never let you go Come into my life again Oh, don't say no You will always gonna be the one in my life So true, I believe i can never find Somebody like you my first love Once in awhile Your are in my dreams I can feel the warmth of your embrace And I pray that it will all come back to me If only you knew every moment in time Nothing goes on in my heart Just like your memories And how I want here to be with you Once more yah yah yah You will always be inside my heart And you should know How I wish I could have never let you go Come into my life again Please don't say no Now and forever you are still the one In my heart So true, I believe I could never find Somebody like you My first love oh oh You will always gonna be the one And you should know How I wish I could have never let you go Come into my life again Oh, don't say no You will always gonna be the one So true, I believe I could never find Now and forever * I do not take claim to any of the original materials used in this video. All rights are reserved by the respective record company's and artists"
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03:00:00 12/26/10
Against Me!, Alkaline Trio, Death on Two Wheels, SantaCon, and Joey Ramone
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As we approach the end of the year on our new broadcast home, we thought it only fitting to feature what you %ndash the proud and passionate JBTV viewers %ndash have called your favorites of 2010.
Leading the views and votes is Against Me%rsquos interview with JBTV host Brendan Kelly and their performance on our HD sound stage. Shot the afternoon of July 3, while the band was in town supporting Silversun Pickups at the Aragon Ballroom, Against Me! blisters through a stripped down set of anthemic pop-punk singalongs including pre-New Wave faves %ldquoPints of Guiness Make You Strong%rdquo and %ldquoI Was a Teenage Anarchist,%rdquo as well as material from their latest release, White Crosses.
In the audience that day was WWE Superstar, CM Punk. Never one to shy from cameras, Punk obliged when we asked him to shoot a post-show interview. Trust us %ndash you don%rsquot need to be a WWE fan or follower to appreciate this former world champ%rsquos reminiscence on growing up watching JBTV and attending sweaty, sold-out shows at Metro as a youngster.
Our friends from Atlanta, Death on Two Wheels, have been such a steadily requested segment since the band delivered this staggering in-studio performance last Spring that it only makes sense to bring them back for another wicked run on JBTV. On the road in support of their most recent EP, Again for The First Time, Do2W offers up their powerful blend of classic and modern rock, fronted by one of the most dynamic personalities (Trae Vedder) making music today. We dare you to watch this segment and not look to see when Death on Two Wheels is coming to town.
Also this week %ndash
Host Tobias Jeg is live at the 2010 Vans Warped Tour with Dan and Derek from Alkaline Trio. Wondering if last week%rsquos JBTV exclusive segment with Matt Skiba at Bottom Lounge triggered a ton of Trio love? Either way, we heard from a lot of you asking us to feature anything and everything Alkaline Trio from 2010. Done.
Toby and Brendan are both on double duty this week as the Static Age duo invades Santacon Chicago. For those unfamiliar, Santacon is an annual gathering of Chicagoans dressed as Santa Claus, spreading good tidings while on a city-wide bar crawl. Hundreds of Santas. Drunk, jolly Santas and right on time for Christmas.
Jerry Bryant revisits his classic JBTV in-studio segment with Joey Ramone. As many times as we watch this, we never grow tired of hearing Ramone pledge his deep-rooted hatred of the %ldquobee girl%rdquo from the Blind Melon video. It%rsquos a rare, awesome piece of footage from the JBTV 25-year archives and it%rsquos back by popular demand!
Because you can realistically watch A Christmas Story 4, maybe 5, times before you can recite each line along with the movie on Christmas Day, JBTV%rsquos got ya covered. 9 PM. NBC Chicago Nonstop (5.2). December 25th.
Thank you for making 2010 the greatest year in JBTV history! Have a safe and happy Christmas from our family to yours.
