- Time to silence those pesky pooches, residents of Palmetto
Bay, Fla. If you don’t, The Man will do it for you. Mayor Shelley Stanczyk has received one too
may complaints from residents who are pissed that Fido or Rocky won't stop
barking at night and when they knock on their neighbor’s door and demand that
the dog’s owner shut their pet up, nothing happens. In response, Stanczyk has roposed
that the noise ordinance be changed to allow anyone to file a complaint with
the city for a dog that barked for 20 minutes or longer, or more than five
times in an hour. While this could lead to a sudden surge in purchases of video
and/or audio recording equipment, the proposed penalties are a nice step in the
right direction for people WHO JUST WANT SOME GODDAMN PEACE AND QUIET FOR A
WHILE. A first violation would net a measly warning, but the second would net a
$250 fine, followed by a $500 ding for a third violation. In order to truly
make a difference and get through to the kooks who spend $300 on velvet-covered
dog beds, feed their pooch prime rib and are pathetic, alone and delusional
enough to think their dog is their actual child, the city will need to do more
than it’s planning on doing. Having its noise control officer issue a notice of
civil infraction to the animal owner and give the owner a maximum of 30 days to
correct the problem before issuing the first citation is a weak-ass move and Stanczyk
has to know it. The law would force dog owners to prove their dog didn’t bark
for 20 minutes or five times in an hour. Mayor Stanczyk also needs to eliminate
potential caveats to the ordinance, including the barking dog being spurred on
by a trespasser or if Fido is teased or provoked. Get rid of the what-ifs and
drop the hammer, plain and simple ……..
- The 2014 season is not off to a sparkling start for the
Chicago Cubs. They lost their first series of the year – again – including a
16-inning heartbreaker in their second game. Even when they won their first
game on Thursday, they could not get off the field unscathed. Cue Cubs outfielder Junior Lake, who went
1-for-4 in Thursday's 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates despite showing
up with a colossal wardrobe blunder. Lake, a rookie who clearly is a bit overwhelmed
by the major league world, looked a little bit off when he stepped up to the
plate in the first inning. With the rest of the team wearing the Cubs’ gray
road jerseys with "Cubs" written across the front, Lake looked
conspicuously out of place with a gray road uniform with "Chicago" written on it. Lake
explained how he came to realize his mistake – other than the obvious. it.
"Bullpen guy [Justin Grimm] told me I had the wrong jersey. I looked and
said [f---]," Lake said following the game. He was alerted to his error in
the first inning and after the Pirates' final out in the bottom of the frame,
Lake sprinted to the clubhouse to change. How did he get so confused in the
first place? According to Lake, he became confused because both jerseys were
hanging in his locker. "Everyone looked at me," he said. "I see
two gray, I take the wrong one." Manager Rick Renteria was unaware of the
mistake until after the game, but his ignorance doesn’t excuse Lake’s. After
all, the team wore the "Cubs" jersey during their entire three-game
series with the Pirates, so it’s not as if they switched it up at the last
minute to pull one over on the rookie………
- Google f*cks up too. For example, when the tech giant agreed
to buy connected-home device maker Nest in January, Google officials didn’t seem
to understand every possible angle or problem with the shiny new toy they just
purchased. If they had, they wouldn’t now be hurriedly urging customers to
disable a feature that allows its Nest Protect smoke and carbon-monoxide alarm
to be silenced with a wave of the hand. The feature, unimaginatively called Nest
Wave, is one of the key selling points of the device, but a Google blog post
noted that using it “could delay an alarm going off if there was a real fire.” To
fix this potential disaster in the making, Nest is sending an update to the $129
Internet-connected Nest Protect alarms that will disable the feature until it
comes up with a more permanent fix for the problem. Additionally, Nest is halting
sales of the device and said customers who didn’t want to keep the alarm could
get a complete refund. “We identified this problem ourselves and are not aware
of any customers who have experienced this, but the fact that it could even
potentially happen is extremely important to me and I want to address it
immediately,” CEO Tony Fadell wrote in the post. The rare few who don’t have
their devices connected to a working Internet link have been advised to
magically find an Internet link and connect their Nest alarm in order to
receive the update and avoid letting their home burn to the ground in a giant
ball of fire. When it works properly. Nest’s alarm system integrates with a
home Wi-Fi network that allows alarms to exchange data among themselves and
with a user’s mobile phone. Should an alarm be triggered in an unoccupied room,
the alarms in occupied rooms will warn users. Ironically, the networking
function has been well-received by users, as has the Nest Wave function. Still,
now would be a good time to yank down that Nest video showing consumers waving
newspapers, cloths and other things at conventional smoke alarms to silence
them along with the caption “This doesn’t make us safer.” You know, because removing
things from the Internet always makes the problem go away……….
- No recording
artist has poured themselves into the annual attempt to keep old-school music
alive that is Record Store Day quite like Jack White. The former White Stripes
frontman, current Dead Weather and Raconteurs lead singer, solo artist and president
of Third Man Records does something extra special for the occasion each year
and presides over the festivities from his perch in Nashville. With RSD lurking
on April 19, White has big plans to celebrate this time around. In his most
ambitious RSD promotion to date, White plans to record and release a single in one day. He record
the song “Lazaretto” on stage in the “blue room” during a live set at his Third
Man Records base in Nashville at 10 a.m. EST, laying down a live version of the
title track from his second solo album. The album itself doesn’t drop until
June 9, but after White finishes recording the track, the masters will be taken
to local record plant United Record Pressing. There, 45rpm singles will be
pressed and the sleeves will be printed from photos taken of the recording.
From there, the newly minted singles will be rushed back to Third Man records
for sale. The process will continue for as long as devoted hipsters in need of
a rarity to add to their vinyl collection are waiting to buy them. “Lazaretto”
is the follow-up to White’s 2012 debut release “Blunderbuss,” which was
critically acclaimed and did fairly well commercially. “Lazaretto” will be
released through White's own Third Man label and XL Recordings and to trumpet
the release, Third Man will release a limited edition “Lazaretto” LP pressed on
split-color blue and white vinyl with exclusive album art. To spice up the
offering, the LP will be packaged with a photo and a 7-inch single featuring
two early demos of songs from the album…………
- Sometimes it seems like all the do-gooders at Amnesty
International care about is stirring up trouble and pointing fingers at various
governments around the globe. What are these international accusers doing this
week? Targeting the hard-working Greek law enforcement community, that’s what. The
latest batch of inflammatory claims coming from the human rights group concern
an alleged culture
of impunity and abuse within the Greek police, which it also criticizes for
inadequately responding to hate crimes and attacks by far-right groups on
migrants and protesters. That sounds an awful lot like fingering The Man for
allegedly beating down citizens without fear of repercussion and not giving a
damn when extremists attack the lesser segments of society. Them are fighting
words, especially when they come in the provocative form of a blistering report
in which Amnesty called on the government to eradicate "a range of
failures that are undermining public confidence in the police and generating a
host of human rights violations." Ouch, bleeding heart liberals. Words
hurt. Maybe not as much as some neo-Nazi extremist violently assaulting you for
no reason and the police refusing to do a damn thing about it, but it still
hurts. Among the reports flashpoints are allegations of torture or
ill-treatment during arrest and detention, including from migrants caught
entering or living in the country illegally. Additionally, AI claims that law
enforcement officials have been active participants in some of the alleged
abuses, which were recorded between July 2012 and February 2014. As one might
expect, police insist all reports of abuse are investigated and deny tolerating
abuses………
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