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For hardcore fans of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, the double-CD The Ultimate Showboat will be a ride down memory lane you won't soon forget. Musical reissues rarely get a comprehensive treatment like this collection taken from rare cast recordings, revivals, radio productions, and pop-vocal records (all dating between 1928 and 1947). Obviously, the sound quality on many of the earlier recordings isn't the best, but where else can we hear legendary vocalists such as Paul Robeson, Allan Jones, and Bing Crosby all singing timeless tunes from one of America's great musicals? Rarities abound: the soft voice of Helen Morgan is captured in a rare radio transcription from 1938 singing "Bill," "Show Boat: Scenario" is a composition commissioned from Kern by Artur Roszinksi for the Cleveland Orchestra, and numerous tracks from the 1946 Broadway revival are included. Probably not the first Show Boat you should pick up, but it's a must-have for completists. --Jason Verlinde

Atists:  Various Artists - Soundtracks, Paul Whiteman, Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor Young, Clifford Greenwood, Victor Arden, Lou Bring, Louis Silvers, Artur Rodzinski, Edwin McArthur, Tess Gardella, Bing Crosby, Paul Robeson, Jules Bledsoe, Lambert Murphy, Al Jolson, Elisabeth Welch, Todd Duncan, Jan Clayton, Kenneth Spencer, Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan
Audio CD:  Cast Recording
Company: Pearl  (1999-10-19)
List Price: $34.98
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The worst of the worst, all in one place! This deluxe desk reference includes a hardbound volume of the most popular scenarios from all 11 Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, plus the entire contents of all the books on a fully searchable CD. Avoid the perils of mountain lions and blind dates, avalanches and teenage driving lessons, runaway golf carts and Christmas turkeys on fire a remedy for every crisis the worst-case experts have anticipated is now only a click away. The CD also contains newly created extra features: screensavers, e-cards, wallpaper, and more. Boasting more than 500 pages, this sturdy addition to the Worst-Case Scenario library could stop a bullet just one more way to be prepared for the worst.

Author: Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
Hardcover:  512 pages
Company: Chronicle Books  (2007-11-01)
ISBN: 0811861368
List Price: $24.95
Amazon Price: $16.50
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How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout.

Though it's being marketed as a humorous title--after all, it's unlikely you'll be called upon to land a plane, jump from a motorcycle to a moving car, or win a swordfight--the information contained in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is all quite sound. Authors Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht consulted numerous experts in their fields (they're cited at the end of the book) to discover how to survive various and sundry awful events. Parachute doesn't open? Your best bet for survival is to hook your arms through the straps of a fellow jumper's chute--and even then you're likely to dislocate both shoulders and break both legs. Car sinking in water? Open the window immediately to equalize pressure, then open the car door and swim to the surface. Buried in an avalanche? Spit on the snow--it will tell you which direction is really up. Then dig as fast as you can.

Each survival skill is explained in simple steps with helpful illustrations. Most stress the need to be prepared--both mentally and physically. For example, to escape from quicksand, you will need to lay a pole on the surface of the quicksand, flop on your back atop the pole, and pull your legs out one by one. No pole? No luck. "When walking in quicksand country, carry a stout pole--it will help you get out should you need to."

Hopefully you'll never need to know how to build a fire without matches, perform a tracheotomy, or treat a bullet wound. But in the words of survival evasion resistance escape instructor "Mountain" Mel Deweese, "You never know." --Sunny Delaney

Author: Joshua Piven
Paperback:  176 pages
Company: Chronicle Books  (1999-10-01)
ISBN: 0811825558
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How could it get any worse? For the latest book in the phenomenally successful Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, the authors have pulled out all the stops, harkening back to the core appeal that made the first book a runaway bestseller. Here are all new scenarios for living life on the very edge. Imperiled readers will learn immediate, hands-on strategies for surviving an elephant stampede, a 16-car pile-up, a mine collapse, and a nuclear attack. Discover how to take a bullet, control a runaway hot air balloon, break a gorilla's grip, endure a Turkish prison, and free a limb from a beartrap. Whether stranded on an iceberg, being chased by a pack of wolves, spinning out on a motorcycle, or being buried alive, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition has all the right stuff for those times when everything goes wrong.

Author: Joshua Piven
Paperback:  180 pages
Company: Chronicle Books  (2005-10-14)
ISBN: 0811845389
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Amazon Price: $5.98
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Does it really even matter in this day and age? I thought people were past that..... Well the scenario is that I started seeing my friend's sister. I been kicking it with her on and off for the last couple months. She is half white and half black. Her brother which I have been friends with for about 10 years told me the other day that he has an issue with me seeing his sister. I don't really get it though.... I was completely shocked when he told me it was because he doesn't believe in interracial relationships. Does he not realize his parents are in an interracial marriage and that he is dating a woman that is of a different ethnic background himself. I think he is being a hypocrite and ignorant. (more...)

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Hi, I am in need of a "calculator" or set of calculator that helps me make a decision on my personal situation. Here is brief: I am planning to refinance my house. Trying to decide 15 year mortgage vs 30 years. I have already completed about 4 years of mortgage. Now here is dilemma: If I do it for 15 years I save about 160K in additional interest payment. So that is a good news. However, it sets me up with 800$ per month extra in payment. Now, IF I go for 30 years ( which frees up 800$s ) -- and if I consistently invest in stock/funds etc and assuming ( 6% on average return, 8% is too aggressive!! , OR I want to see various returns % ) and at the same time I save in taxes for additional 15 years. Which is better 160K I saved OR 30 year option. Also, consider that after 15 years I would have freed up the whole mortgage payment so I could very well invest those money for additional 15 years. But then tax benefit for last 15 year would go away. Also, I might need to factor in inflation as well. Any calculators on the market OR any direct help from the community would help me determine this ? I am just trying to do various What-IF scenarios to make up a decision. Thanks -- Jignesh. (more...)

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him on the radio this week,and he has got old NUMB NUTS down to a tee!Never laughed so much. (more...)

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Sorry if this is long and rambly. I am very tired.. Okay, I go back on the 28th because that is the date in Australia for my school. There are these girls that are in my group that are joining my business class. Business class at my school is one of the hardest subjects you can choose and I try really hard to keep my grades up in that class. These two girls are not the smartest of people. They act dumb because it is 'cute'. One of the girls doesn't know what a rectangle is. :S I seriously hope she is joking. One girl decided to join and the other girl is switching classes because she does not want to be alone in her home economics class. I think that is a stupid reason to change classes because she doesn't even know what they do in business class. The teacher is really strict and I know they are going to get me into trouble. I already get into trouble in that class for absoloutely nothing and it infuriates me. I know it is going to be a long year. I am afraid of them dragging my grades down. I really really really need to pass this class. This class is going towards my OP (Australian thing to get into university) I am imagining different scenarios now where she doesn't stop talking. This class is dead silent. I can't choose seating positions because of how the computers are set up and I already know that they are sitting next to me. They are already a year behind in this subject. OMG this girl just asked me what a word document was :S Anyways, I guess my question is, how can I not be distracted in class and how do I make people shut up when they won't? XD Thanks (more...)

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For my creative writing, I want to show that two people have developed from girlfriend and boyfriend to lovers. So I'm looking for a sentence where it goes: ______ became _____, however it should show the progression of a couple to lovers, with the latter blank serving as an implication for something sexual. The blanks should be actions or scenarios or events. The more sentences you can construct will give you a better chance of scoring 10 points as best answerer. Thanks in advance guys! (more...)

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Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government. Speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Bilderburgers meeting. Unbeknownst to XXXXXXX, his speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting (more...)

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Hypothetically, I suppose I should give up trying, but please don't come here preaching. It's a fun and interesting philosophical question. There won't be need for so much Theodicy if there was a practical reason why god can't perform good. Possible Scenarios 1) Satan fought and won, and is now running the show from behind the scenes. Operates kinda like a Mob boss. God is imprisoned somewhere 2) god is dead, someone else is running the show, not doing a good job, an angel without ability or bureaucracy is bringing the thing down. (more...)

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lets assume you're out jogging on a bitter cold winters morning and you notice a bunch of men in trench coats and sun glasses approaching another bunch of professionaly dressed shady figures. You sneak behind a tree and observe the events as they unfold and one of them follows a guy to the trunk of their car and opens it. A brief case of some sort is opened and then closed again. The man seems pleased, and then he whistles at a comrade to bring a large duffel bag of some sort, unzipping it and showing its contents. Both parties are pleased - and then out of the blue, the brief case men pull out AK-47's and begin firing at their counter parts, the stunned duffel bag men take cover behind their vehicles and return fire with their semi-automatics and 9mm's. Both parties suffer heavily casualties and only a handful of men are left, injured too. A third car with a man wearing a 'casper the ghost' mask drives right into the brief case leader breaking his legs in the process, he gets out of his car walks up to the gang leader and fires 5 shots into his body the final one into his temple at point blank range. now, in reality only a male would be witnessing this kind of thing because females would have nervous breakdowns or start crying. but lets assume even a female could be witnessing this heh. casper the ghost walks around the other vehicles and takes out a few other injured dying men (no witnesses left) and then he opens the bonnet and takes the duffel bag and drives off. You approach the bullet ridden black lexus saloon and open the trunk and the brief case is there - you open it and to your shock, you are stareing at £500,000 in un-marked bills, neatly placed in polythene bagging. Do you take the money and go home ? call the police ? leave the case and go home ? I'd take the money heh but what would you do in this fictitious scenario ? (more...)

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i was thinking about an experience in my life a few years back where i really liked a girl yet i never had the courage to ask her out due to a fear of being rejected. Now she is happily married and i am looking back continually wondering what she may have said, let me re-assure you first that i am over her, but i was just wondering what would have been the worse of both scenarios. In my opinion i would have preferred to have been rejected than be left wondering. The question is, is it the times that we never even tried that we will regret the most ???? (more...)

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I'm a charity sporting event coordinator for the baby boomer generation, so wanting to know your opinion. SCENARIO: a 57 yr. old man, 6'0, 240lbs, solid build but slightly overweight. Rank the sports below in order of most likely to succeed (from 1 to 5, with 1 being most likely to succeed) Basketball, Boxing, Tennis, Golf, Swimming (more...)

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