From Berger:
It’s been 25 years since the grand dame Globe-Democrat closed its doors for the last time. So, Tom Pagano felt it’s a great reason to have a party. The reunion will be held from 3-7 p.m., Oct. 29 at Orlando Gardens, 8352 Watson Rd. For an RSVP, go to Frank Absher (history@swbell.net).
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Who would give such a death-dealing device to a 19-year old?
Ooops. Maybe the Army? How 'bout as a sidearm when deemed necessary to defend oneself? Okay. That works. There was that whole Vietnam War thing.
Buy the kit to do an audio blog ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
In Russia, ammo shoots you ...
Like most things from Russian industries, QC is a secondary consideration. The gunpowder is dirty and smoky and leaves the shooter smelling like, well, he went to the range and the weapon needs to be cleaned carefully.
But the cans are air- and water-tight and can be buried if necessary (a tactical consideration). It's also very cheap, about twenty cents per round, okay for a third-world country, great for shooters in the US who want to practice putting holes in paper targets.
The cans are also pretty heavy, 25+ pounds. My FedEx guy hates me.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
How To Alienate Your Customers In 5 Easy Steps...
1. Raise your prices by 60%.
2. Fail to keep your best content.
3. Issue a weak apology, and spin the dying part of your business into a ridiculous new brand.
4. Fail to reserve said ridiculous brand name on a hugely popular social media site.
5. Fail to span your billing and amazing recommendation engine across both brands.
Anyone care to guess how long Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will keep his job? He's taken a groundbreaking and extremely successful company and trashed it in the course of a few months. It isn't often you see a company go from hero to zero so fast, in so few steps. Are you paying attention, Amazon, Blockbuster, and Wal-Mart? Are you going to get in this fight, Apple? Now is your time to take the lead.
Here's Randy Raley's little finger ...
I know nothing about Rock formats, not Classic, Current or Modern. My formats were R&B, Old School Top 40, Adult Contemporary and pre-Garth Country, and I was moderately successful in my career with the execution of each.
Never listened to Rock and I really just don't get it. Raley does, and he proves it ever day with his PlanetRadio internet music channel.
A couple weeks ago, Randy wrote a scathing review of a weekend feature on STL's KSHE/FM94.7, where Raley once worked. Everything he has to say about their music is true. Music radio stations are pasteurized, homogenized, deep-fried and french-fried to the point where I wouldn't be soo-prised to know that their music lists were made up by an infinite number of monkeys hammering away on an infinite number of keyboards.
Give Randy credit for making an effort to stand out in the crowd. Would his station survive the current imposition of the ridiculous PPM ratings system? Don't have any idea. But if even a rock-ignorant, boring Old Dog like me can enjoy listening to it, there must be something there that sniffs suspiciously like success.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Steve & DC sad saga continues ...
Here's a bit from a young lady who personally suffered locally at the hands of these crooks and their affiliated "ministries." If you know where they are, please contact me and I'll pass it along to the relevant authorities.
It's from a young lady who first encountered these sleazebags when she was a teenager and evidently was used and abused by Steve, DC and Anna for a number of years. Rachel is not a scholar but I think you can get a pretty good handle on the situation by reading what she has presented below. Again, if you can lead me to a current address for these folks, it'd be a good thing.
Hello, Mike:
My name is Rachel Hicks and I am a 29 yr. old single mom from Litchfield, IL. Though this is old news, I had read an article that you have previously written in 2010 about Dc Chymes and his wife Anna Wilhelm. Not only is it extremely shocking but since I have known them for a short time in 1997 after they aired the Halloween Show 97' at my families home in White City, IL the illegal behavior from them has obviously been going on for a very long time.
I know when I first met DC and his family, along with Steve Shannon, and the men from Life Christian Church in Sunset Hills, MO now Life Church in Fenton. I felt blessed to know those men and their families. I really loved them with all my heart, but was totally crushed. They had sold home made videos of my deliverance of demonic spirits without my permission or copyright as well as cassette tapes, and so did Life Christian Church. I was promised money but never recieved anything, other than being mistreated by Anna, or limited conversation with Steve and DC as I visited them and "lived" with them during the Summer of 98'.
My father, Robert has literally been ripped apart because of what they had done and all the whle he always said, it's not Steve or DC but it's Anna. He often felt sick in the pits of his stomach when he was around her and said that there was something wrong with her and that he didn't like her. After his recent viewing of the article that was written of the issues with their rent, fraud, and illegal transactions, and Emmis Communications suing them for damage etc. It is a very sad and heart breaking story.
I know that people will make promises to me all my life and never live up to them. Like Anna telling me she was going to mail me a check after I helped them move from a nice home in Manchester to a very small house in Clayton where they were going to put her son Jacob (5) sleeping in the basement, while Rick and Rose slept in a room upstairs, Anna seemed make fun of DC when he had anything to do with praying, etc. I was told they were going to give me their BMW - because Anna was pregnancy with Sofia at the time and they were going to get a mini-van because of the 3 kids.
I most certainly felt betrayed and hurt by Steve and DC and many of the people I have met through them, even at Life Christian Church who are involved with many of the teleevanglists in Fenton Mo - nation wide. I know that the only healing that I could have have was to speak of my experiences, and I even was hospitalized for the things that happened. I was young 15 - 18 and slipped into isolation, depression, all over again, but I have grown up to realize my healing came from Jesus Christ, not from people he may have put in my past, to later paint a picture.
It's never right to be a dishonest person, to commit crimes, to never pay rent to people who trust you because of your name or fame, or claim to be a christian but yet have this wife, drag you down to the pits of hell, because they have issues. I have seen Dc and Anna's wedding video after Dc told me they had a video of halloween night, I said I wanted to see it and Anna popped in the wedding tape, and Dc left the room. There was not one ounce of love in her eyes as they were dancing together. I seen it at 15.
I feel bad because Steve and DC pretty much lost everything and had to move on with their lives. And that things turned out sour for them in such ways. People used to really once enjoy those guys and it fell apart. I was 15 when I met them, knew them, watched the way they acted, spoke to people, treated me, told me they wouldn't give me money to start my ministry, they didn't do this or that. Those are the types of people that need to know Jesus, and pay their respects to society, and the people they have hurt.
I felt like writing this because it's been a burden on me for a long long time. I've never talked about it.
Thank you for reading if you do.
Sincerely, Rachel Hicks
It's from a young lady who first encountered these sleazebags when she was a teenager and evidently was used and abused by Steve, DC and Anna for a number of years. Rachel is not a scholar but I think you can get a pretty good handle on the situation by reading what she has presented below. Again, if you can lead me to a current address for these folks, it'd be a good thing.
Hello, Mike:
My name is Rachel Hicks and I am a 29 yr. old single mom from Litchfield, IL. Though this is old news, I had read an article that you have previously written in 2010 about Dc Chymes and his wife Anna Wilhelm. Not only is it extremely shocking but since I have known them for a short time in 1997 after they aired the Halloween Show 97' at my families home in White City, IL the illegal behavior from them has obviously been going on for a very long time.
I know when I first met DC and his family, along with Steve Shannon, and the men from Life Christian Church in Sunset Hills, MO now Life Church in Fenton. I felt blessed to know those men and their families. I really loved them with all my heart, but was totally crushed. They had sold home made videos of my deliverance of demonic spirits without my permission or copyright as well as cassette tapes, and so did Life Christian Church. I was promised money but never recieved anything, other than being mistreated by Anna, or limited conversation with Steve and DC as I visited them and "lived" with them during the Summer of 98'.
My father, Robert has literally been ripped apart because of what they had done and all the whle he always said, it's not Steve or DC but it's Anna. He often felt sick in the pits of his stomach when he was around her and said that there was something wrong with her and that he didn't like her. After his recent viewing of the article that was written of the issues with their rent, fraud, and illegal transactions, and Emmis Communications suing them for damage etc. It is a very sad and heart breaking story.
I know that people will make promises to me all my life and never live up to them. Like Anna telling me she was going to mail me a check after I helped them move from a nice home in Manchester to a very small house in Clayton where they were going to put her son Jacob (5) sleeping in the basement, while Rick and Rose slept in a room upstairs, Anna seemed make fun of DC when he had anything to do with praying, etc. I was told they were going to give me their BMW - because Anna was pregnancy with Sofia at the time and they were going to get a mini-van because of the 3 kids.
I most certainly felt betrayed and hurt by Steve and DC and many of the people I have met through them, even at Life Christian Church who are involved with many of the teleevanglists in Fenton Mo - nation wide. I know that the only healing that I could have have was to speak of my experiences, and I even was hospitalized for the things that happened. I was young 15 - 18 and slipped into isolation, depression, all over again, but I have grown up to realize my healing came from Jesus Christ, not from people he may have put in my past, to later paint a picture.
It's never right to be a dishonest person, to commit crimes, to never pay rent to people who trust you because of your name or fame, or claim to be a christian but yet have this wife, drag you down to the pits of hell, because they have issues. I have seen Dc and Anna's wedding video after Dc told me they had a video of halloween night, I said I wanted to see it and Anna popped in the wedding tape, and Dc left the room. There was not one ounce of love in her eyes as they were dancing together. I seen it at 15.
I feel bad because Steve and DC pretty much lost everything and had to move on with their lives. And that things turned out sour for them in such ways. People used to really once enjoy those guys and it fell apart. I was 15 when I met them, knew them, watched the way they acted, spoke to people, treated me, told me they wouldn't give me money to start my ministry, they didn't do this or that. Those are the types of people that need to know Jesus, and pay their respects to society, and the people they have hurt.
I felt like writing this because it's been a burden on me for a long long time. I've never talked about it.
Thank you for reading if you do.
Sincerely, Rachel Hicks
Incandescent bulbs become illegal to buy 12/31/11 ...
Did you know that? A lot of folks, including older folks, did not. In 2012, you will only be allowed, by federal mandate, to buy CFL lightbulbs. You know, the one's with mercury in them, so that, when they break, you have to call in the guys in moonsuits to clean up the hazardous mess you've got in your kitchen.
Bad news is that China has upped the prices of the rare earths used in the manufacture of CFL's, driving the cost of the bulbs to around $11 for the equivalent of a 6o-watt incandescent. The bulbs are made in China because GM, the primary manufacturer, has moved all of the CFL industry out of the US.
The good news is that you can still buy incandescents in almost any wattage at good prices. Every time I go to the grocery store, for example, I pick up a few packs of 60- and 75-watt bulbs. They cost about forty cents each in multiple packs. Incandescent floodlights are still available, too, at reasonable prices. Buy now and avoid the $11/CFL bulb rush!
Stocking up is the American thing to do! Thomas Edison says so!
Bad news is that China has upped the prices of the rare earths used in the manufacture of CFL's, driving the cost of the bulbs to around $11 for the equivalent of a 6o-watt incandescent. The bulbs are made in China because GM, the primary manufacturer, has moved all of the CFL industry out of the US.
The good news is that you can still buy incandescents in almost any wattage at good prices. Every time I go to the grocery store, for example, I pick up a few packs of 60- and 75-watt bulbs. They cost about forty cents each in multiple packs. Incandescent floodlights are still available, too, at reasonable prices. Buy now and avoid the $11/CFL bulb rush!
Stocking up is the American thing to do! Thomas Edison says so!
Cindy Preszler's pay cut ...
From Jerry Berger:
Money doesn’t make television stars happy. Is one of them with $2 million a-year happier than one with $1 million a year? Morale is at an all time low at KSDK, Channel 5. “There;s lots of animosity throughout the entire organization,” the trusted source told the columnist a few minutes ago. “Things are so bad that many employees have been put on furlough, positions cut, and hiring new people for very low wages. Weather forecaster Cindy Preszler was forced to take a pay cut. So, when offered a three-year contract, she turned it down and signed one for only two.” Much tension and turmoil at the station is over the new 4 p.m. show. Station bosslady Lynn Beal and news director Mike Shipley are the cause of all the tension, according to an insider, who explained, “They are so desperate to make a success of the show and their new lineup. Look for some personalities at KSDK to leave the station as quickly as possible.” Some of the newbies are so dull, the station should have a yawn track.At another station, the news director complained his computer crashed and he had to think all day.
Read it here, comment here. Registration required.
Money doesn’t make television stars happy. Is one of them with $2 million a-year happier than one with $1 million a year? Morale is at an all time low at KSDK, Channel 5. “There;s lots of animosity throughout the entire organization,” the trusted source told the columnist a few minutes ago. “Things are so bad that many employees have been put on furlough, positions cut, and hiring new people for very low wages. Weather forecaster Cindy Preszler was forced to take a pay cut. So, when offered a three-year contract, she turned it down and signed one for only two.” Much tension and turmoil at the station is over the new 4 p.m. show. Station bosslady Lynn Beal and news director Mike Shipley are the cause of all the tension, according to an insider, who explained, “They are so desperate to make a success of the show and their new lineup. Look for some personalities at KSDK to leave the station as quickly as possible.” Some of the newbies are so dull, the station should have a yawn track.At another station, the news director complained his computer crashed and he had to think all day.
Read it here, comment here. Registration required.
Yes, there is an App for the STLMedia Message Board ...
... for the iPhone and the iPad. Go to your relevant App Store and search for apps for ProBoards (the company that hosts the MB). When prompted, enter STLMedia as the MB to watch, then your User Name and Password (as used on the MB).
Work it from there. It'll cost ya $2.99, by the way. Sorry. I don't get a danged nickel outa the deal.
Work it from there. It'll cost ya $2.99, by the way. Sorry. I don't get a danged nickel outa the deal.
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