November 3 Biz Minute
Today Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the nation’s second-largest railroad, making a $34 billion dollar bet on the future of the U.S. economy
Nokia Siemens Network, the No. 2 maker of wireless network equipment, said today it planned to cut 9 percent of its workforce as it attemps to weather double digit sales decline and stiffer competition from Chinese manufacturers.
Johnson & Johnson said today it will trim layers of management, cut potentially more than 8,000 jobs, and set other restructuring moves in order to save up to $900 million dollars next year.
G.I. Joe and the Transformers came to Viacom’s rescue in the third quarter, helping boost the company’s earnings 15 percent with strong box office returns.
MasterCard said today its third-quarter profit was bolstered by continued cost-cutting measures and an increase in the number of transactions it processed.
Stanley Works struck a deal to buy rival Black & Decker for $3.4 billion dollars in stock, combining a top hand tool maker and power tool maker to benefit from higher margins and cost savings
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Stanley Jordan at Housing Works- Part 5
Incredible guitarist Stanley Jordan plays “Insensatez (How Insensitive)” for the patients of Housing Works in the East Village, NY, in a show sponsored by Hearts and Voices.
Duration : 0:6:37
Review of Stanley Tools
The MotorsportsMan reviews some cool lighting products and portable power from Stanley.
Duration : 0:10:1
Stanley Jordan at Housing Works- Part 4
Incredible guitarist Stanley Jordan plays Charlie Parker’s “Billy’s Bounce” for the patients of Housing Works in the East Village, NY, in a show sponsored by Hearts and Voices.
Duration : 0:4:53
Stanley Jordan at Housing Works- Part 3
Incredible guitarist Stanley Jordan plays “the slow movement of Mozart’s piano concerto #1″ for the patients of Housing Works in the East Village, NY, in a show sponsored by Hearts and Voices.
Duration : 0:7:13
2001 A Space Odyssey – Space Sequences Tribute Part 4of4
And here the “Mother” (well the real mother is probably “Metropolis”) of all Science Fiction Movie Special Visual Effects: Stanley Kubricks “2001 – A Space Odysee” from 1968. All seen here is of course handmade. All photographic effects, no CGI. And all SFX Scenes from the Movie are cut toghether in full length and in chronological order.
Because it’s more than 36 Minutes of FX, including the “changing Dimensions” FX, i had to split in into 4 parts. And don’t adjust your volume when there’s nothing to hear. It’s meant that way 
The Music: (thanks door2yourheart for your comment) QUOTE WIKI: “Atmosphères (1961 – by György Ligeti) is written for large orchestra and is not musically related to the earlier electronic piece of the same name, although some of its aesthetic intentions are similar. It is seen[who?] as a key piece in Ligeti’s output, laying out many of the concerns he would explore through the 1960s. Out of the four elements of music — melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre — the piece almost completely abandons the first three, concentrating on the texture of the sound, a technique known as sound mass. It opens with what must be one of the largest cluster chords ever written — every note in the chromatic scale over a range of five octaves is played at once. Out of the fifty-six string players ushering in the first chord, no two play the same note. The piece seems to grow out of this initial massive, but very quiet, chord, with the textures always changing. For this compositional technique not only used in the aforementioned work, Atmosphères, but also in Apparitions and his other works of the time, Ligeti coined the term “micropolyphony”.[citation needed]
The Requiem for soprano, mezzo-soprano, five-voice chorus, and orchestra is a four-movement work in the same totally-chromatic style as Atmosphères (a portion of this work too received wide currency in the scene on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the scene of the proto-humans approaching the monolith). The first movement of Requiem, the “Introitus”, has a thin texture, but the “Kyrie/Christe” is a stunning, brilliant evocation of searing appeal.[citation needed] It is a massive (twenty-part choral) quasi-fugue where the counterpoint is re-thought in terms of the material, consisting of melismatic masses interpenetrating and alternating with complex skipping parts. It was a part of this movement that accompanied the enigmatic monolith scenes in Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. The last instance quoted in the movie (at Jupiter: Beyond the Infinite), this movement (interrupted by a loud radio-tone screech from the monolith) segues to the opening of Atmosphères. The penultimate movement, “de Die Judicii Sequentia” (Day of Judgement Sequence) is a colossal montage of contrasts: fff loud versus ppp soft, masses of sound versus soloists, etc. In the final movement, “Lacrimosa” (weeping), the chorus is muted, and only a reduced orchestra accompanies the plangent singing of the soloists.
Lux Aeterna is a 16-voice a cappella piece whose text is also associated with the Latin Requiem, which also was partially used in Kubricks movie (for the moon-bus scene en route to the TMA-1 monolith in the crater Tycho). The piece is strongly modeled after the masterful mensuration canons of Johannes Ockeghem and accomplishes much the same effect, but with secundal, rather than tertian harmony, in a paradoxically thick-but-transparent 16-voice texture.
The third Kubrick use of Ligetis music was from his mimodrama Aventures (in the even more cryptic final scenes), distorted by an echo chamber.”
Last Music, at 5:00, is of course “Also sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176) Opening. Composed by Richard Strauss, performed by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Quote Stanley Kubrick (source:Wikipedia): “I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to „explain” a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation. You’re free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film — and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level — but I don’t want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he’s missed the point.”
Stanley Kubrick 1922 – 1999.
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Stanley Tools Made in China.MP4
Stanley Tools Made in China and they have become LESS ‘reliable’ in IMPORTANT control points like the moveable flange that holds the spring tension of the studs ,brads, or staples being used. Factory…or design choice to use use plastic instead of metal. This thing broke on my head from only a 12-14 inch drop off a computer desk at keyboad hieght.
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Stanley Jordan at Housing Works- Part 2
Incredible guitarist Stanley Jordan plays a “2 part Bach invention(fugue)” for the patients of Housing Works in the East Village, NY, in a show sponsored by Hearts and Voices.
Duration : 0:3:12
We want the Stanley Cup Video – Montreal Canadiens (HQ)
The high quality version of our Habs song to the song Right Now by Akon
We do not own any of the clips in this video
Credit to whoever took the fan videos
lyrics:
It’s been so long
Since we have seen that cup
Georges Laraque is strong
You know that we are just warming up
Its been 100 years, the fans are getting really loud
With Koivu, Carey, and Kovalev too
We couldnt be more proud.
We want the Stanley Cup right now now now
For the 25th time right now now now
The timings just right now now now now
We cant give up right now now now
We want the Stanley Cup right now now now
For the 25th time right now now now
The timings just right now now now now
We cant give up right now now now
With Carbonneau, and Bob Gainey guiding our crew
We fans know, Komisarek, and Bouillon will keep us safe
Go Habs Go! Wearing the colors red, white and blue
With the Kostitsyns we have faith!
Like Maurice Richard, no team works this hard.
We want the Stanley Cup right now now now
For the 25th time right now now now
The timings just right now now now now
We cant give up right now now now
We want the Stanley Cup right now now now
For the 25th time right now now now
The timings just right now now now now
We cant give up right now now now
Copyright to Akon
Duration : 0:2:33
proto of my taf vid