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In the early 1960s, one particular building in New York City was a remarkable, all-in-one engine room of popular music:

The Brill Building…was a classic model of vertical integration. There you could write a song or make the rounds of publishers until someone bought it. Then you could go to another floor and get a quick arrangement and lead sheet for $10, get some copies made at the duplication office, book an hour at a demo studio, hire some of the musicians and singers that hung around, and finally cut a demo of the song. Then you could take it around the building to the record companies, publishers, artist’s managers or even the artists themselves. If you made a deal there were radio promoters available to sell the record.

Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Neil Sedaka are just a few of the many songwriters who worked in there before going on to become performers and recording artists in their own right. Tonight’s selection features another performer who got her start in the Brill Building: from the 1973 album The First Songs, here’s Laura Nyro singing And When I Die.
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  1. Another positive sign in Holland:
    “Left-wing Green (GroenLinks) leader Femke Halsema believes that progressive politicians and thinkers should dare to make more criticisms of Islam. They are too often accepting the pressure that radical Muslims put on the Islamic community, in her view. Halesema says it is high time that leftwing politicians view the position of women and homosexuals within Islamic communities just as critically as they do when it comes to Christianity. This does not happen at present because there is too much black-and-white thinking, in her view. ‘There are two flavours: you are either a multiculturalist or an Islam haters,’ she said in a lecture on freedom of religion in Utrecht’s Jacobi church.”

  2. Here’s a interesting podcast by BBC Radio 4’s Peter Day. It focuses on “insourcing” being done by British companies, expanding their offices to Sofia, Bulgaria.
    What struck me most while listening to it was this simple question: Are most Brits/Canadians/Americans ready for, let alone aware of this new reality? I suspect not. How long will it be before some double-talking politicians try, and then fail, to prevent companies from expanding their companies naturally in this way?!
    A great irony is that the former Communist Bulgarians featured in this podcast likely understand a whole lot more about Capitalism than do most people in Western Europe and North America!

  4. bobbie zimmerman never went to no brill building see heah…
    zimmie never needed no vertical integration shit like you sayin..
    bobster made it on havin skills see…
    hunh!…an i don espect no comeon back about dose facks honey..

  5. You knowi just wanted to share a thought with everyone ..it struck me and actually touched my heart today as wierd as this may be as i am usually a loud mouth opinionated commenter on here.
    Let me start by saying that i had a conversation today i was talking to my friend and work and we were talking about him rebuilding his volkwagon surocco it is old like not sure the year but anyway what happened was i was on the computer at luch at work looking at sda and this and that.
    When he came over and asked me if i was done and i want’ed to say “why ? don’t you have a computer at home? I did not say that i finished what i was doing on the internet and he jumped on there i sati n a chair next to him and watched him research and look up parts for his car and read some troubleshooting articles for his wiring harness.
    Anyway i sat there quietly and watched and all of a sudden i had this terrible feeling a feeling of utter discust …………in myself .
    I proceeded to ask him “do you have a computer or internet at home?” jeff is his name a very nice young man who lives on his own and makes way less than i do .
    He answered no …no i don’t i can’t afford it.
    The reason i am sharing this with you is this.
    I grew up very poor and from a disfunctional home and i worked so hard to get to where i am i am not rich but i used to liveo n the street’s and when i livedo n the street’s i would here people talk so proud and judgmentaly of people and listen to how they assumed everyone had one of those or these and if they didn’t they were poor and useless.
    I swore i would never ever do that when i became wel of or even just comfortable (witch i am ).
    And today i realized i had become like those people i swore i would not become
    first of all i made an assumtion that eeeeeevvvrryone has a computer and the internet and the truth is we are in the age of computers where t.v.’s were in the early seventies not everyone has one and not everyone want’s one and not everyone can afford one .
    secondly i made an issue (in my head) as though it were my own personal computer and i was being gravley inconvienienced.
    Thirdly i wanted to dismiss him as being below me right away simply becasue he asked me if he could use the computer after i was done ….this is my freind and co-worker this person invited me to his parent’s house for christmas when i had no where to go and no one to spend it with .
    shame on me no i am not a liberal self loathing person although i might seem like it for a second here . Truth be told i discusted myself today and i realized how rude i could have been at the flick of my tounge .
    I just realized that i had become someone even just for a second, i swore while i was freezing on the street’s of winnipeg that i would never become . I swore i would never take anything nothing zero for granted even in my worst of times becasue i can alway’s say someone is alway’s doing worse and suffering worse than you so suck it up and stop feeling sorry foryourself.
    I alway’s said that to myself when i was in a bad spot . i just wanted to share with you that i realized that no not everyone lives as good as me or bad depending where you are in life and no matter what, never make assumtions about people and alway’s remeber that when you are comfortable you are taking something or someone for granted so be thankful and humble for you situation becasue the answer is alway’s this
    Yes you could be worse off and when we remeber that people like me end up stopping themselves from making hasty and hurtful thing’s to others . I am just glad enough that i was abale to stop myself and i thaught before i spoke that my friends say’s something about my age becaseu even just a few years ago i would have puked that all out to someone and felt there wrath.
    Good night and thank you for reading .

  6. i allus keeps my mouf shut until i know fersure of that which i speechify upon..
    after dat i don cut nobody no slack…i tries to do it wif de old kid gloves of course but not by choice you sees…
    mostly i enjoys bof barrels
    what the spic sailors back in the day called the genuwine ‘cacafuego’…

  7. Paul in calgary, some people feel that freely giving is a very high honor, to be able and willing to give what they have, freely of their own decision. It’s very different from what many (here at SDA and elsewhere) find that the government is forcing upon us. The choice made willingly, should be ours.
    … and turn your damn spell check back on. 🙂
    here’s another live feed from the mine site in Chile… / Wall Street Journal.
    http://online.wsj.com/public/page/LiveVideo.html?mod=e2tw

  8. Yessir, those two-by-fours of sudden self-knowledge ’round the back of the head do throb for a while, Paul.
    Good on ya for taking the time out to think it through.

  9. *
    “paul says… a feeling of utter discust“
    hey, paulie… get yourself some boxer shorts
    and a tube of anti-fungal cream     and you’ll
    be fine.
    *

  11. Paul in Calgary:
    A while back you mentioned that you were now a Christian so you are still a new Christian and will continue to grow.
    As in life, it takes a while to mature, and hope you have a church family, are in prayer daily and read your Bible regularly.
    BTW, did you say back then that you were getting married soon?
    G

  13. EBD, first post: “Halesema says it is high time that leftwing politicians view the position of women and homosexuals within Islamic communities just as critically as they do when it comes to Christianity”
    The leftwingers are trying to destroy Western civilization, and Christianity has always been a major part of that (not that I personally am an adherent, of course). So they find Islam very useful as a means of disrupting the West, because its culture is so different from ours. They don’t really care that the Islamic view of women and gays is quite the opposite of their own – the more important thing from the leftist standpoint is that the West can be attacked.
    Remember the political correctness agenda that has been posted here many times. One point is constant change to confuse people, another is massive immigration to destroy our traditions, another is emptying the churches.
    The leftwingers are playing the radical Muslims like a violin, and when they’re done with them, they’ll throw them in the trash, just like Russell tried to do with his fellow contestants on Survivor.

  14. Robert W. (Vancouver)
    Yeah I share that emotion….we win one sometimes.
    This is in the same league as Apollo 13.
    I’m not a mining engineer but an old tunnel rat…I just don’t go there much…I am blessed with adept friends who can crawl under my car and affect repairs….and don’t ask…
    I especially salute the volunteers who are going down to get these guys up….they have the right stuff…the Pennsylvania drilling experts, the NASA engineers who designed the capsule, the Chilean submarine techs who built it, the international team shrinks who succeeded in keeping these guys from going around the bend….those who remembered in their prayers, these marooned souls in their rocky tomb ….

  16. Here’s some more fun news re. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman under sentence of death by stoning for adultery in Iran (well, I think it’s recently been changed to death by hanging for murder). A couple of German journalists have been arrested, and her son and her lawyer, whom they were interviewing at the time, have, um, “gone missing”:
    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/298804

  17. Can I rant for a second?! The other day a medical doctor in London I know said this: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/australianclimatemadness/posts/154824021225105
    Now this evening the 20-something daughter of some friends of mine posted a link about an upcoming talk about questioning phony science. I got excited and then asked the obvious question: Does this include a segment on Global Warming “Science” & ClimateGate?
    OMG you should have seen the multiple attacks from her equally young friends, all of whom I assume are in sciences at local universities around Vancouver. I was never impolite. I posted this recent infamous resignation letter: http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html I also posted Melanie Phillips’ condemnation of the 10:10 Exploding Children video: http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6336655/hate-actually.thtml
    But not a scintilla of what I or the aforementioned authors were saying crept into the “minds” of these little punks. Instead, like a gang surrounding a victim, they did the e-equivalent of circling around and putting their boots to my head.
    Didn’t university used to be about learning and asking questions? No longer it seems. Sad.
    I don’t think that Mark Levin’s use of the term “Drones” to describes such folks is far off the mark. I’m also more convinced than ever that Leftism, especially Eco-Leftism, is more of a Fundamentalist Religion than any other religion we know of … well, except for perhaps one.

  18. It used to be about “how to think” Robert W. It’s now concentrated on “what to think”.
    Mark Levin’s rants have been excellent as of late. It really throws my extended family into a tizzy when I use his lines…
    Recently Cuba has made plans of allowing foreign companies to drill off its shores for oil. Here’s an short analysis of that and what the US can expect… from a former board member of Venezuela’s PDVSA. Gustavo Coronel is a petroleum geologist writing now from the USA, and is active in many of the freedom loving and opposition Venezuelan blogs.
    He usually blogs in spanish, this is in english.
    http://lasarmasdecoronel.blogspot.com/2010/10/cuban-oil-prospects-and-potential.html
    EBD, I have some commentary caught in the filter, I don’t know why as of late but it seems quite a few are being sent there. Is Obama at all the controls?

  19. Thanks a lot EBD- now that I’ve finished cleaning my BS&T, I’m gonna have to clean the rest of my vinyl.

  22. Thanks, paul in calgary, about reminders to be a lot more humble because there, but for the grace of God, go I. I find that we learn these lessons not by the Lord handing us “humility” or “patience” on a silver platter but by being put in humiliating situations and situations where we need to learn patience. Sometimes it’s hard work!! ‘Nearly always, actually. But we’re helped by the Holy Spirit, and we only have to ask. He’s a breath away.
    Hey, john begley, zimmerman’s in a class by himself. Doesn’t everybody know that?

  23. http://dailyreckoning.com/a-global-grain-powerhouse/
    Although the Sask/Canadian agricultural company Viterra is mentioned in this article by Chris Mayer, the interesting part is the comments on how much more food is going to be required to feed the 8 billion people projected to be on Earth in the yr 2030.
    Enjoy and remember that a hoe is going to be your best friend.

  24. @ Gellen
    Yes i am a pretty new lutheran christian , i still have many habit’s from a godless past .
    I am learning and sometimes i see why people turn from god although that is just a terrible thing to do , it is exctremely hard to live a godly life i find just how imperfect we are and especially how imperfect and flawed i am this is a long road and i have 28 years of learning to do .
    I missed alot as a kid and now that i have jesus in my heart working in me i think iti s abuse to not take your kids to church and send them to sunday school and yes i was an agnostic/athiest for 28 years and i felt quit the oposite for 28 years now i see i sometimes get welled up when i see new kids being confirmed or babies being baptised ,to me it shows how god works through there parent’s to ensure that child in the no matter what will be afforded the same luxry as there parent’s and that is to sit with the angels in heaven and have eternal life.
    Yes my wife and i just got married as well
    Thank you all for reading what i had to say , it is humbling to accept your imperfections as a christian ,and not dismiss them like godless people do so often you know “ah don’t dwell on it , or ah it was there fault not mine,or yeah well if it wasn’t for people like so and so “….i for one now and am learning to accept when i do something wrong i do something wrong and no one made me do it so there for it is my fault and i hold myself accountable sometimes it is just a simple appology to someone (it is amazing how far a true appology goes).
    Yes again thnak you for reading my thought’s i had to share them .

  26. Paul in Calgary. I haven’t been there but I know I am fortunate. One of the reasons I never pass a Sally Ann kettle without dropping at least a five in. I know it isn’t going for drugs and could help turn someone around with a sandwich as bait.

  27. Marc in Calgary (1:08), I just released your comment, which got caught in the filter because it contained the word “online” – “http://online.wsj.com…” etc. It should appear now.
    Posts containing the word “online”, including, unfortunately, davidwarrenonline.com, never make it through the filter. Same thing with “mortage”, and “insurance.” That last one – insurance – results in a lot of comments on posts about Obamacare, for example, not getting through.

  28. Wednesday morning, and I’ve just heard Stephen
    Lewis interviewed on CBC re: Canada’s failure to
    obtain a seat on the UN Security Council.
    Can this man not be charged with treason?
    Lewis seems to be the CBC’s go-to guy for sedition.
    Sadly, like Suzuki, he has been allowed to become
    a left-wing “institution”, all on the taxpayer’s dime.

  30. Hang in there Paul, creeping up on 60 here, and have been bellyup 3 times, 2 self-inflicted, and one by a women (God Bless her soul, she married a fairly rich man this time.) And, even though organized religion is not my bag the Ten Commandments is a dayyam good set of rules to live by.
    EBD, thanks my Man, I now know what Stoney End was all about.
    ,

  31. PET Cemetery Poll.
    1. Should LibIggy “get out of Dodge” and flee to a) Harvard, b)Provence, France, c) Portugal?
    2. Is LibIggy “Just Visiting” “The Canadian People”?
    3. Does LibIggy deserve a seat in Canada’s Parliament?
    4. Is LibMurphy fleeing LibIggy?
    RSVP: Lib.caca.
    …-
    “Is Obama fleeing the country?
    (Obama will be flying to India just 2 days after the elections)
    The controversy: After moving up a scheduled trip to India next month, President Obama will be leaving for Mumbai on November 4, just two days after the midterm election — which at least one blogger has interpreted as “more evidence Obama knows there will be a Democratic bloodbath at the polls.”
    Obama, says Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker, clearly wants to “get out of Dodge” to avoid “recriminations.” Obama will also visit Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea during the 12-day trip, one of the longest tours in his presidency so far.
    The reaction: Where’s “the most dangerous place to be standing just after the November election”? asks Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com. “Between President Obama and the nation’s emergency exit doorway.” The president is getting out of the country as soon as the polls are closed. Actually, bringing the trip forward means that Obama will be in India for the celebrations on Diwali night, says Chidanand Rajghatta at The Times of India. Fans of “better India-U.S. ties” ought to “save some of those firecrackers” for Obama’s arrival.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2606735/posts
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/10/13/let-portugal-do-the-heavy-lifting-now/#comment-92464

  32. John White (1914-69): One Meatball….
    This is blues…. this is sad. This is truth.
    ….Lady in Red

  33. Cross posted at another SDA thread vis a vis Canada’s “rejection” of a seat on the Security Council (sic):
    Check out Lorne Gunter’s article today in the National Post : Nothing to be ashamed of,/i> :
    http://www.nationalpost.com/Nothing+ashamed/3661473/story.html
    Pundits will moan that this is an international vote of no confidence in the Tories’ management of foreign affairs, a slap in the face to brave, plucky, multilateralist Canada who for years played the UN game of siding with despots and dictators, then sitting silently by while friends and allies were slagged, all in the hopes of winning the unofficial designation of “honest broker.”
    But honest broker of what?
    What’s weird, is that I read this article in the paper version of the National Post this morning, but when I tried to find it online, it didn’t seem to be included in Today’s Paper. I found it by doing a search on the National Post Web site, using the actual title. If I hadn’t had the title to do a search with, would I have found the article?
    Weird.

  35. Paul in Calgary, thank you for sharing.
    Hang in there. I’ve just read a book about Chuck Colson: if you don’t know who he is, look him up! After decades as a completely committed and, by all standards, very successful Christian—his Prison Fellowship Ministries has supported and changed the lives of countless numbers of prisoners and their families around the world—he still fights pride. (Me too—and every Christian I know!)
    Bless you. Remember, you are not alone. God is with you. And so are your brothers and sisters in Christ.
    Here’s what 19 year old, Chilean miner, Jimmy Sanchez said yesterday: “There are actually 34 of us [in the mine], because God has never left us down here.”
    Deo gratias!

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