The Damned
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Released 1977
The sound of the punk explosion is best archived on The Damned's 1977 release Damned Damned Damned. The U.
Illustration by dmitri jacksonSomething is afoul in cyberspace.
200 million members and growing every nanosecond, Facebook has become part of the global lexicon, and the envy of the high tech industry, politicians, and business leaders in only five years. Yet the "social networking" site is still struggling for a real business and revenue-generating model; moreover, it must cater to and retain its fickle, addicted, and/or disenchanted users (and advertisers) while fending off upstart competitors. Presently, the social networking site that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes co-founded may be their downfall.
To fully grasp the phenomena and many issues surrounding Facebook, you have to follow the money. Start with $65 million: That's the settlement Facebook's co-founders had to pay three of their Harvard classmates in July 2008 for stealing their idea for a site called ConnectU. Add the $200 million cash infusion that Russia-based Digital Sky's partner Alexander Tamas pumped into Facebook last month for a 2% stake in the social networking site, then factor in the $240 million that Microsoft paid for a 1.6% stake in the site in October of 2007, and you will see the numbers simply don't add up.
Somehow, about six years ago somebody slipped a little loophole into the portion of the city code governing collection of Bend's transient room (hotel/motel) tax. The loophole might not be big enough to drive a truck through, but it could be big enough for more than $400,000 a year to leak through.
That's how much Visit Bend, the local tourism promotion agency, estimates the city could lose in revenue if it retains a bizarre $10-per-room exemption for hotels and motels that offer a complimentary breakfast to guests.
We call the exemption "bizarre" because, in the first place, it doesn't appear to exist anywhere but Bend. Deschutes County doesn't have it. The state doesn't have it. None of the cities in Oregon or even on the West Coast apparently have it.
The exemption also is bizarre because it absolutely defies logic. Its supposed purpose is to make Bend lodging "more competitive" with other places by reducing the room tax that guests must pay. But at an average per-night room rate of $102, the savings from the breakfast exemption is only 90 cents - hardly enough to persuade somebody to vacation in, say, Lincoln City instead of Bend.
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting while moonwalking, outside Bernie Madoff's sentencing, slinging Orange Glo while buying Farrah Fawcett posters, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
sleeps with angels.That Hair, Smile,
That Anal Cancer
I loved her. The speckled stains on my childhood bedroom ceiling are proof enough. Farrah, a name like a fast sportscar; Fawcett, the way she turned us on with the jerk of a knob. Her swimsuit poster - red, clingy, yummy – sold 12 million copies, more than even Dale Earnhardt. The pride of Corpus Christi, TX, Farrah came to our TVs with Charlie's Angels in 1976 as Jill Munroe, a seductress spying and karate-kicking each week for her unseen sugar daddy. No man could treat her right, though; The Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, who Farrah married from 1973-1982 couldn't hang, and then Ryan O'Neal, from 1982-1997, was revealed as the untalented piece of poop that he is. Gone at 62, she belongs to the ages. Take a look at the models today and know why she was different: Wasted on Letterman, convincingly playing an abused and vengeful wife in The Burning Bed, and offering herself to the cameras while suffering through anal cancer (not so sexy but, somehow, still arousing with her). She is why my right wrist is unusually strong.
Monday, June 22, the Oregon House of Representatives passed legislation that would ban destination resorts in the Metolius Basin. It had already passed the Oregon Senate, and by the time you read this, Governor Kulongoski likely will have signed it. Opponents have branded supporters as, among other things, anti-growth. They're wrong. And their error stems in part from failing to see that the issue involves more than growth; it also involves equality, conservation and sustainability.
We three know enough economics and enough about Oregon and Deschutes County to know why they're wrong. Ward is a 4th-generation Oregonian, has a doctorate in economics, and just finished teaching a term of labor economics at the U of O. Whitelaw is a 13-year resident of Deschutes County and 40-plus-year resident of Oregon, also has a doctorate in economics, began teaching at the U of O in 1967, with classes focused on the economics of the Pacific Northwest, and in recent years on economic growth in Deschutes County. Kenny-will graduate soon in economics from the U of O, has fallen in love with Oregon, plans graduate school elsewhere, and sees himself returning to Oregon for many of the same reasons the other two of us are here.
I am one of the 200 or so students who just graduated from the OSU-Cascades campus here in Bend. Hurrah, I'm done! After 6 years of hard work pursuing an academic goal, I have finally achieved my Bachelor's of Science.
To those tuned into natural rhythms, things seem to be quieting down in the Central Oregon bird world with much of the calling at a distance from the nest site, or in the subtle, or at times not so subtle, exchange between nestlings and adults during feeding bouts. An urban exception at our house in Bend is the sundown chorus of robins and doves.
Regarding what happened to Andrey, the guy who works at WebCyclery and was hit from behind while riding his bike on Shevlin Park road a couple of weeks ago, he is lucky to be alive. The driver was on the phone, drifted into the paved bike lane and never saw him until he was on the hood.
How is the value of a dollar defined?
The printing of dollars
is like snow flakes in a snow storm. They are coming so fast it is
impossible to count them.
Tenacious Archery time with JB.Little boys, whatever their ages, have always loved permission to laugh at potty humor. Like baseball, number two pencils, and visiting your parents, jokes about feces and farting draw out that inner child like nothing else can. Harold Ramis recognizes this. So he wrote and directed Jack Black's new movie, Year One.
Ramis has a great resume dating back to Caddyshack and Ghostbusters. But let's face it, houses built largely of dung and gas generally don't hold up. And Year One is no exception.
But there are redeeming moments. In fact, cameos by Oliver Platt and Hank Azaria are brilliant. Azaria plays Abraham to Christopher Mintz-Plasse's Isaac. And there are bits, moments and high points where you're surprised in ways that are original and funny. And Azaria and Platt are in many of them.
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