Naughty Mr Maxwell...
(but it's true)
@Kovacs -- Darn hackers..
OK then -- maybe we don't need it if it's no longer there -- but if we reall get busy it'd be nice to have that facility. Maybe Keith has some input?
Thanks mate
Alex
Musicians for Katrina Relief
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- Banned
- 4073 posts since 15 Mar, 2004
Naughty Mr Maxwell...
(but it's true)
@Kovacs -- Darn hackers..
OK then -- maybe we don't need it if it's no longer there -- but if we reall get busy it'd be nice to have that facility. Maybe Keith has some input?
Thanks mate
Alex
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- KVRAF
- 2828 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from Canarias
Xan I was serious and meant : looks wonderful; lots of work done.
Of course I understand that pro's will do it in a no-time, but I'll need probably even more time...
Cheerio,
Max... .. .
Of course I understand that pro's will do it in a no-time, but I'll need probably even more time...
Cheerio,
Max... .. .
Carpo diem ergo sum !
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- KVRAF
- 16154 posts since 2 Dec, 2003 from Nashville, TN
I could advertise the CD a bit at Sample Torrents probably. I'll have to decide on the banner size and all.
Also, if anyone wants to upload a torrent of the exclusive tracks that aren't on the CD or something like that, there can be purchase info in the description.
Just some ideas. ST has over 1000 members, and I'm sure at least ONE of them haven't got the CD, eh?
Brent
Also, if anyone wants to upload a torrent of the exclusive tracks that aren't on the CD or something like that, there can be purchase info in the description.
Just some ideas. ST has over 1000 members, and I'm sure at least ONE of them haven't got the CD, eh?
Brent
My host is better than your host
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- Banned
- 4073 posts since 15 Mar, 2004
Max el Belga wrote:Xan I was serious and meant : looks wonderful; lots of work done.
Of course I understand that pro's will do it in a no-time, but I'll need probably even more time...
Cheerio,
Max... .. .
Really? Ta me mate
*I thought that's what you meant but I feel like teasing you this morning...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
http://www.yahoo.com/s/376068
Can you believe it's been a year already!!
So is it worth a push for the anniversary guys? Sorry I haven't been around much lately but I picked up a nasty Trojan somewhere and it kicked my laptop's arse for most of this month which contributed to me missing out on the comp this month
(I *think* it is gone now, but we'll see).
So, what's the word with that org Scott? I still have some promos left if that would help.
And Brent, any luck with sampletorrents or tunecore? (btw, the bonus songs are on the Chrysalid website)
Any other ideas popped up lately? I kinda see this as our last "big" chance at increasing sales and making another donation. Tormod says we have $150 so perhaps we could spend some of that on a marketing approach if it seems worth it?
Ideas...suggestions...witty comments....
BTW, where the heck is YouTM???
Can you believe it's been a year already!!
So is it worth a push for the anniversary guys? Sorry I haven't been around much lately but I picked up a nasty Trojan somewhere and it kicked my laptop's arse for most of this month which contributed to me missing out on the comp this month
(I *think* it is gone now, but we'll see).So, what's the word with that org Scott? I still have some promos left if that would help.
And Brent, any luck with sampletorrents or tunecore? (btw, the bonus songs are on the Chrysalid website)
Any other ideas popped up lately? I kinda see this as our last "big" chance at increasing sales and making another donation. Tormod says we have $150 so perhaps we could spend some of that on a marketing approach if it seems worth it?
Ideas...suggestions...witty comments....
BTW, where the heck is YouTM???
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- KVRAF
- 4908 posts since 10 Aug, 2004 from Colorado Springs
Freeztar,
I have to admit, I have not contacted them. I've been quite busy and haven't done a thing with trying out some new marketing.
-Scott
I have to admit, I have not contacted them. I've been quite busy and haven't done a thing with trying out some new marketing.
-Scott
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
It's all good Scott, I was just seeing what was going on and where people were with this. Let us know if anything happens on your radar. 
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
adj wrote:xander wrote:bump...
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 2362 posts since 24 Jan, 2001 from In your head...
Katrina's Purgatory
Excuses sound hollow when you're trapped in a flimsy trailer. For Gulf Coast residents waiting for long-promised government housing assistance, patience has given way to anger, and anguish. What is clear more than a year after Hurricane Katrina is that their needs — and the demand for action from the American public — have largely gone unmet.
In Louisiana, only 28 families have received their share of the federal dollars intended to help them repair or replace their homes. After a local uproar, and a strict new deadline from the governor, the number of residents approved for funds is now just under 5,000 — out of nearly 78,000 applications.
Louisiana's housing reconstruction authority should not bear all of the blame for this problem. All the gears of government grind too slowly for the victims of the storm. It took the Bush administration nearly six months to request the necessary rebuilding funds. Congress hemmed and hawed until June before approving the legislation. Down the coast, Mississippi's program has also been plagued with delays.
The federal housing money alone is not going to solve the difficulties faced by Katrina's victims, particularly in New Orleans. The normal market mechanisms on the Gulf Coast have been shattered, and they need to be repaired if Katrina's victims have any hope of putting their lives back together. Local banks are filling up with a reserve of billions of dollars in private insurance money. The Louisiana Recovery Authority points out that many victims who have been approved for help still have yet to ask for their checks.
Some people have shown amazing faith and determination, pressing on and putting construction costs on their credit cards. But other residents, in spite of their will to rebuild, are unable to use the funds for a host of reasons. Contractors are nearly impossible to find, and high prices reflect their scarcity. Insurance rates are rising to levels unaffordable for the average homeowner. Many victims have missed bill payments or lost sources of income, hurting their creditworthiness and leading to higher interest rates on any loans they might need.
The normal hard decisions of real estate are amplified a thousand times by the possibility that a house in an empty neighborhood in a broken city could be worthless. Imagine every house in your neighborhood is damaged or destroyed. The average government award in Louisiana is $60,200, and it will cost more than that to replace your house, and more than it was worth before the storm, when every house on the block was whole and children played out front. Do you rebuild?
The president's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, is soft-spoken and deliberative. Those qualities have served him well in the past, but not now. As the government's emissary (and the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), he has a powerful pulpit and the ability to summon all the key players — major lenders, buyers of loans like the large investment banks and Fannie Mae, and federal regulators — to help fix the system. Mr. Powell needs to speak out more forcefully and act more aggressively.
The ruin of a region and the historic city of New Orleans could not be more important, and the tangle of destruction is nowhere near unwound.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
Excuses sound hollow when you're trapped in a flimsy trailer. For Gulf Coast residents waiting for long-promised government housing assistance, patience has given way to anger, and anguish. What is clear more than a year after Hurricane Katrina is that their needs — and the demand for action from the American public — have largely gone unmet.
In Louisiana, only 28 families have received their share of the federal dollars intended to help them repair or replace their homes. After a local uproar, and a strict new deadline from the governor, the number of residents approved for funds is now just under 5,000 — out of nearly 78,000 applications.
Louisiana's housing reconstruction authority should not bear all of the blame for this problem. All the gears of government grind too slowly for the victims of the storm. It took the Bush administration nearly six months to request the necessary rebuilding funds. Congress hemmed and hawed until June before approving the legislation. Down the coast, Mississippi's program has also been plagued with delays.
The federal housing money alone is not going to solve the difficulties faced by Katrina's victims, particularly in New Orleans. The normal market mechanisms on the Gulf Coast have been shattered, and they need to be repaired if Katrina's victims have any hope of putting their lives back together. Local banks are filling up with a reserve of billions of dollars in private insurance money. The Louisiana Recovery Authority points out that many victims who have been approved for help still have yet to ask for their checks.
Some people have shown amazing faith and determination, pressing on and putting construction costs on their credit cards. But other residents, in spite of their will to rebuild, are unable to use the funds for a host of reasons. Contractors are nearly impossible to find, and high prices reflect their scarcity. Insurance rates are rising to levels unaffordable for the average homeowner. Many victims have missed bill payments or lost sources of income, hurting their creditworthiness and leading to higher interest rates on any loans they might need.
The normal hard decisions of real estate are amplified a thousand times by the possibility that a house in an empty neighborhood in a broken city could be worthless. Imagine every house in your neighborhood is damaged or destroyed. The average government award in Louisiana is $60,200, and it will cost more than that to replace your house, and more than it was worth before the storm, when every house on the block was whole and children played out front. Do you rebuild?
The president's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, is soft-spoken and deliberative. Those qualities have served him well in the past, but not now. As the government's emissary (and the former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), he has a powerful pulpit and the ability to summon all the key players — major lenders, buyers of loans like the large investment banks and Fannie Mae, and federal regulators — to help fix the system. Mr. Powell needs to speak out more forcefully and act more aggressively.
The ruin of a region and the historic city of New Orleans could not be more important, and the tangle of destruction is nowhere near unwound.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
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fateamenabletochange fateamenabletochange https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8029 - KVRAF
- 3062 posts since 13 Jul, 2003 from outer rim
Thank you very much for this update.
I try not to be cynical,but why am I not surprised.
This is a travesty,the town to one of the world's largest ports,and the dream team can't get it together.
Really as an outsider,it is because the peeps involved are poor and black,party town and perceived as 'antisocial' by the brain dead prejudiced in charge.
I try not to be cynical,but why am I not surprised.
This is a travesty,the town to one of the world's largest ports,and the dream team can't get it together.
Really as an outsider,it is because the peeps involved are poor and black,party town and perceived as 'antisocial' by the brain dead prejudiced in charge.
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- KVRAF
- 2828 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from Canarias
I'm not surprised either !
Max... .. .
Max... .. .
Carpo diem ergo sum !
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- KVRAF
- 2362 posts since 24 Jan, 2001 from In your head...
Kafka and Katrina
Published by The New York Times: December 2, 2006
One of the many victims of Hurricane Katrina may turn out to be the hospitality that American cities, particularly Houston, showed to people fleeing the storm. Thanks largely to the Bush administration's catastrophic handling of the relocation crisis, Houston endured much more civic strain than it should have in caring for the tens of thousands of Louisianans who landed on its doorstep.
The administration's mishandling of the crisis has often looked like a calculated attempt to discourage displaced people from seeking housing aid, even if it means leaving them vulnerable to homelessness. A federal district court judge implied as much this week, when he found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's aid application process was so convoluted and confusing as to be unconstitutional — and likened it to something out of a horror story by Kafka.
Judge Richard Leon ruled that FEMA had unconstitutionally denied housing aid to thousands of residents who were displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He ordered the government to resume payments immediately, pointing to blind alleys and contradictory information that often led vulnerable families to lose aid without understanding why or having reasonable recourse to appeal.
In Houston, people are at least being housed now in apartments rather than remote trailer camps where other displaced Louisianans have now been trapped for more than a year . But throughout this saga, FEMA has whipsawed the survivors and their host communities with unpredictable policy changes that have hindered the resettlement process and kept everyone on edge. Despite those obstacles, many have managed to get on their feet.
But Houston must still worry about impoverished and hard-to-employ refugees who represent an enormous burden in health care, law enforcement and education costs. City officials also say that the federal government has been unpredictably late and tightfisted with badly needed aid.
The administration made its most disastrous misstep when it failed to enlist the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was created to deal with just these kinds of situations. If the administration had provided Section 8 housing vouchers through HUD, families could have been directed to affordable housing all over the country. No one city would have been asked to absorb tens of thousands of people.
Congress needs to make sure that its housing application process is rendered intelligible. But it needs to go much further. It has to make sure that the survivors who qualify are given aid through programs like Section 8 that allow them to pick up their lives quickly, and that there will be no more Houstons in the American history of disaster response.
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Amazing
Please remember that half the proceeds from our CD sales go to 'Habitats For Humanity' to help the Katrina victims in their insane, never ending fight to survive, so if you've still got an uncle or step-child that hasn't purchased one, slap a quickie on 'em pronto-like.
Cheers,
Alex
Published by The New York Times: December 2, 2006
One of the many victims of Hurricane Katrina may turn out to be the hospitality that American cities, particularly Houston, showed to people fleeing the storm. Thanks largely to the Bush administration's catastrophic handling of the relocation crisis, Houston endured much more civic strain than it should have in caring for the tens of thousands of Louisianans who landed on its doorstep.
The administration's mishandling of the crisis has often looked like a calculated attempt to discourage displaced people from seeking housing aid, even if it means leaving them vulnerable to homelessness. A federal district court judge implied as much this week, when he found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's aid application process was so convoluted and confusing as to be unconstitutional — and likened it to something out of a horror story by Kafka.
Judge Richard Leon ruled that FEMA had unconstitutionally denied housing aid to thousands of residents who were displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He ordered the government to resume payments immediately, pointing to blind alleys and contradictory information that often led vulnerable families to lose aid without understanding why or having reasonable recourse to appeal.
In Houston, people are at least being housed now in apartments rather than remote trailer camps where other displaced Louisianans have now been trapped for more than a year . But throughout this saga, FEMA has whipsawed the survivors and their host communities with unpredictable policy changes that have hindered the resettlement process and kept everyone on edge. Despite those obstacles, many have managed to get on their feet.
But Houston must still worry about impoverished and hard-to-employ refugees who represent an enormous burden in health care, law enforcement and education costs. City officials also say that the federal government has been unpredictably late and tightfisted with badly needed aid.
The administration made its most disastrous misstep when it failed to enlist the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was created to deal with just these kinds of situations. If the administration had provided Section 8 housing vouchers through HUD, families could have been directed to affordable housing all over the country. No one city would have been asked to absorb tens of thousands of people.
Congress needs to make sure that its housing application process is rendered intelligible. But it needs to go much further. It has to make sure that the survivors who qualify are given aid through programs like Section 8 that allow them to pick up their lives quickly, and that there will be no more Houstons in the American history of disaster response.
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Amazing
Please remember that half the proceeds from our CD sales go to 'Habitats For Humanity' to help the Katrina victims in their insane, never ending fight to survive, so if you've still got an uncle or step-child that hasn't purchased one, slap a quickie on 'em pronto-like.
Cheers,
Alex