Refugee

THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11th In 1963...In Los Angeles, fans bought the unauthorized Bob Dylan release The Great White Wonder. It is generally credited as the first bootleg album. In 1964...The winner of a Mick Jagger impersonation contest held in Greenwich, England, revealed that he was really Chris Jagger, The Rolling Stones frontman's younger brother. In 1964...The Beatles played The Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. The band requested that the audience be desegregated. In 1965...The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" went to number one on the English singles chart. This was two months after it became a chart-topper in America. In 1967...Fresh from the release of Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles headed out in a psychedelic bus with their entourage to begin filming The Magical Mystery Tour. In 1968...The Beatles recorded 34 takes of "Glass Onion." In 1974...The roots rock of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell and The Band filled England's 80-thousand-capacity Wembley Stadium. In 1977...It was announced that David Bowie would duet with Bing Crosby for a Christmas special. The two later performed a version of "Little Drummer Boy." In 1979...The Who played their first gig without the late Keith Moon. Kenny Jones of The Faces sat in on drums when the band played Passaic, New Jersey's Capitol Theatre. In 1979...On the first date of his American tour, Tom Petty unveiled a banner that posed the question "Why MCA?" Petty was complaining because his label Gone Gator had been sold to the industry giant. In 1984...Nearly 17-thousand Bruce Springsteen fans crammed Philadelphia's Spectrum to see "The Boss" play the first of a six-night stand. The show set a new attendance record for the venue. In 1987...Reggae star Peter Tosh was murdered in Kingston, Jamaica. The former Wailer's home was invaded by robbers, who shot the "Legalize It" singer. Police apprehended only one of the three murderers. In 1987...At the MTV Video Music Awards, Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" won Video of the Year. In 1995...Green Day turned down an invitation to play on Sesame Street because they "couldn't handle a mosh pit full of five-year-olds." In 1996...David Bowie became the first artist to release a new single on the Internet 24 hours before it was due to hit radio. The song was "Telling Lies." In 1996...Michael Hutchence of INXS pleaded guilty to assaulting a photographer who waited to ambush him outside a hotel. He was staying with Bob Geldof's ex-wife Paula Yates. Hutchence was fined 600 dollars. In 2000...The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland unveiled The Jimi Hendrix Surround Sound Theater and Exhibit. In 2003...Jewel postponed her North American tour after her longtime bassist, Termome "T-Bone" Hannon, died from a stroke. He was 39. In 2003...In the midst of big autumn tours, Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac refrained from playing on the second anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. In 2004...Fred Ebb, the lyricist for the classic musicals Cabaret and Chicago, died at his New York home.

WOW! I am SO sorry LizzieB, Barb, Gina, Athena and Relic. I had no idea so many of our Farmers would be affected. I hope Meg gets back on the road to recovery soon. I do sympathize with her though, anxiety attacks are no fun and not to be taken lightly. They can be so devastating. :085:

I'm functional, but not very enthusiastic What shocked me the most was the physical toll it takes on your whole being. Perfectly said. It is really amazing what depression does to you. Physically and mentally.

Not many breakfast eaters here, huh?

This just breaks my heart. I hope these cases are very rare. Have they started this yet in children? I remember reading somewhere once where they wanted to implant this chips into kids.

Wonderful review, Emmie! Thank you so much for sharing your night with us. I'm not a huge fan of Genesis, but I am always interested in hearing from a fan how the concert went. Drunks and traffic, seems to be a something we must deal with now.

Mike and I saw John in 2006, that was, hands down the best concert I saw that year. If any of you get a chance to see this man, do it!

Oh man, that sucks! Sorry for you LizzieB and all others who were going to see them.

I heard from an excellent source, the show was really good. :045:

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies." But neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this: A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats. "The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining in a phone interview the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich. Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people. To date, about 2,000 of the so-called radio frequency identification, or RFID, devices have been implanted in humans worldwide, according to VeriChip Corp. The company, which sees a target market of 45 million Americans for its medical monitoring chips, insists the devices are safe, as does its parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, of Delray Beach, Fla. "We stand by our implantable products which have been approved by the FDA and/or other U.S. regulatory authorities," Scott Silverman, VeriChip Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, said in a written response to AP questions. The company was "not aware of any studies that have resulted in malignant tumors in laboratory rats, mice and certainly not dogs or cats," but he added that millions of domestic pets have been implanted with microchips, without reports of significant problems. "In fact, for more than 15 years we have used our encapsulated glass transponders with FDA approved anti-migration caps and received no complaints regarding malignant tumors caused by our product." The FDA also stands by its approval of the technology. Did the agency know of the tumor findings before approving the chip implants? The FDA declined repeated AP requests to specify what studies it reviewed. The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options. Thompson, until recently a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, says he had no personal relationship with the company as the VeriChip was being evaluated, nor did he play any role in FDA's approval process of the RFID tag. "I didn't even know VeriChip before I stepped down from the Department of Health and Human Services," he said in a telephone interview. Also making no mention of the findings on animal tumors was a June report by the ethics committee of the American Medical Association, which touted the benefits of implantable RFID devices. Had committee members reviewed the literature on cancer in chipped animals? No, said Dr. Steven Stack, an AMA board member with knowledge of the committee's review. Was the AMA aware of the studies? No, he said.

^ I wish you better luck with Springsteen than what a few of us had last Saturday, YIKES! Shut out within seconds, never had a chance to buy tickets. Although my friend did manage to snag a pair.

What professional league starts up pretty soon? Baseball

I wish for a lot of things right now.

Get Back - The Beatles

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I play a variety of instruments, so let's go with these: Bass Guitar Drums Saxophone

My stomach is usually too messed up in the mornings to eat breakfast.

I LOVE Dave Letterman, I wish I had known.

Niagara Falls...something I promised my adopted grandma (very good friend of my parents) I would do, but didn't get to.

NEW YORK (AP) - In a rare appearance on someone else's talk show, David Letterman was a guest at the 22nd season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which taped before thousands of cheering fans at Madison Square Garden in New York instead of in Chicago. Winfrey asked Letterman, 60, if he was "interview-phobic." "It's just that you know, when you have your own show, you have plenty of time to talk about whatever you want to talk about anyway," the host of the "Late Show with David Letterman" said. Winfrey got him to open up a bit, talking about his love for a home he keeps in Montana and how honoured he was to have a communications building dedicated in his name this month at his alma mater, Ball State University. He even showed family photos. The birth of his son Harry has made a "huge difference" in Letterman's life, but the three-year-old does not always get his father's sense of humour. "Mommy has to tell him a lot that I'm just teasing," Letterman said. Letterman said he struggles between using "patience or discipline" raising his son, whose mother is Letterman's girlfriend Regina Laskey. Letterman said Harry had to be placed on the "naughty chair" over the weekend after misbehaving. "He's still there," Letterman joked. The visit marks another step forward in a once uncomfortable relationship between the two stars. Winfrey twice appeared on Letterman's NBC show before he jumped networks in 1993, but then rejected repeated offers to visit again. In 2003, Winfrey told Time magazine she would not appear with Letterman because she had been "completely uncomfortable" as the target of his jokes. Their reconciliation began in 2005 when Winfrey appeared on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman." During the broadcast, he escorted her across the street to the opening night of the Broadway musical "The Color Purple," which she produced. The two then appeared in a surprise promotion for his "Late Show" during January's Super Bowl in which Letterman was shown munching chips on the couch, then being reprimanded by Winfrey for talking with his mouth full. Winfrey assured Letterman their frosty relations are over, showing footage of her office in which two photos of Winfrey and Letterman are mixed in among photos of Winfrey with John Travolta, Stevie Wonder, Nelson Mandela and her boyfriend Stedman Graham. - David Letterman, who appeared on the season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Monday, brought one of his trademark Top 10 lists titled, "Top 10 Reasons I love Oprah." -No. 10: She smells great. -No. 9: Without her, we would have never known that quack Dr. Phil. -No. 8: She helped me start my wildly popular D magazine. -No. 7: We're yoga buddies. -No. 6: Oprah's incredibly busy, yet she always finds time to ignore my calls. -No. 5: She agreed to validate my parking. -No. 4: Taught me how to launder money in the Cayman Islands. -No. 3: Anytime I'm in Chicago, she lets me crash on her couch. -No. 2: Oprah gave me my first post-surgery sponge bath. -No. 1: She's giving everybody in today's audience a new house.

Hair with John Savage who also starred in..

I wonder if all will go well this week.

choke on his...

PASSE = Petty Ate Sharon's Spaghetti Excitedly :icon_arrow: LITER

I wish I didn't bruise so easily. :icon_neutral: