Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the Govotta & Finale from Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev‘s Symphony #1 (Classique), in D Major, Op. 25, Valery Abisalovich Gergiev conducting (2000, 6:32)

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are ZZ Top and Willie Nelson performing She Loves my Automobile (3:19).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is The Unknown Source episode of Mr. District Attorney (1948, 27:50).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, to our previous mention of l’Hydroptère (and here ~ she’s the world’s fastest sailboat, at just under 90 km/h), and to our previous mention of the Brossard Trimaran, here is some footage of the Géant ORMA-class sixty-foot ocean-going trimaran in relatively calm waters, which gives one a good idea of her general scope (4:24), and here is Géant in somewhat rougher seas (3:30).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here are Johnny Carson and Dom DeLuise performing their classic Egg Fight sketch from The Tonight Show (7:06).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here is Mr. Maurice Burkhart performing The Yiddisha Professor on Edison Blue Amberol cylinder #1643 in 1913 (MP3, 3.8 MB, 4:07).

Update: Here is Vitruvius TV from 2008-10-14 20:00 to 21:30 MDT…
(The horizontal light gray line represents ΣVe/n for the last four days.)

Clearly, Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative Party of Canada
has a stronger mandate after this election than it did before.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here couresy of listener Porter are Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Jon Eardley, Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Crow, and Dave Bailey performing Bernie’s Tune in Rome in 1956 (3:52).

There is no significant change in today’s ΣVe/n, it has now been
predicting 136 ±1 Conservative seats for four days running.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, it’s cameras inside the pipe organ time again. Here for your delectation is John Scott Whiteley performing the fugue from Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Concertato Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532, on a four-manual organ built by Arp Schnitger in the late 17th century, the details of which I have as yet been unable to determine (6:30).

Polls are current as of Friday or Saturday. Pick graph image for larger view. I have moved the dark blue Conservative majority breakpoint line in the graph from +8 to +6.5, since that is more accurate. For the last three days, ΣVe/n has predicted 137, 135, and 136 Conservative seats. The current spread is from 122 to 160 seats.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are The Goodmen performing their house classic Give It Up (1993, 3:30, video may not be suitable for some types of epileptics or puritans, and if you don’t like house music then just skip it, please, after all, we only do house work around here every fifty shows or so, and it’s all in the name of eclecticism, the foundation of SDA Late Nite Radio).

I’m not sure whether or not those are the last polls this time ’round or not ~ is there still a three-day moratorium on polls before the the election? So I’m going to hold off on the final graph until tomorrow, to see if there is more data. But I can say this: what a mess! The polls have been bouncing around like bingo balls in the blower. Further, the current set is bimodal: Angus, Decima, and Segma say ΣVe/n = 6.52 or 154 seats, EKOS, Ipsos, and Nanos say ΣVe/n = 3.45 or about 122 seats. Segma alone says 160 seats, Nanos alone says 120. Whew. Still, I’m confidently predicting that each party will get from zero to 308 seats 😉

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and long-weekend reading, and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show and to Kate’s earlier entry on socialists instilling fear, we have an exceptional non-radio entry. Here is Gees’ First Case, a short novel by Jack Mann, set in England and written in 1934, which considers some of the strategies and tactics used by communists, anarchists, and other enemies of civilization. Pick “continue reading” for an excerpt.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here are Chet Atkins and the boys performing Wildwood Flower in Oslo, in 1964 (2:53).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show and Tuesday’s upcomming spectacular, here are Monty Python performing their Election Night Special sketch (5:22).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Adrian Rollini and His Orchestra performing A Hundred Years From Today (1934, 3:08).

Update: I’ve been thinking about the above table, and I can’t legitimately say that I don’t think that last Saturday’s Angus and Ipsos polls now look like outliers. If we only count the three dailies, ΣVe/n=2.98, giving a minority of about 120 seats, four less than last time.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, and courtesy of listener Porter, here are Shorty Rogers and his Giants performing Diablo’s Dance and Infinity Promenade, from the BBC’s Jazz Library show on Radio 3 (1955, 9:21).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, Herbert von Karajan conducting (23:16)

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are Santana performing the cha-cha-chá Oye Como Va, from their album Abraxas (1970, 4:18, Oye Como Va, Tito Puente).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is the Big Gamble episode of Dragnet (1952, 29:42).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here courtesy of SDA LNR listener Gunney 99 are Pedro Infante and associates performing El Aventurero (2:35).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here are the one-minute openings to three classic Supermarionation television shows, Fireball XL5 (1962), Stingray (1963, my favourite), and Thunderbirds (1964). Pick Continue Reading for more on today’s show.

(I’m not counting the Strategic Counsel’s new poll of Ve = 9.45 in today’s Σ ΔVe/n because their last poll was on 2008-08-31, so this new result of theirs, good news though it is, can’t reasonably be considered part of the trend monitoring yet.)

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Thomas “Fats” Waller and the boys performing When I’m Alone (1929, 3:30).

Nota Bene: Here are the 3^rd quarter SDA Commenter Statistics.

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