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Posted on May 28, 2009 under schusters of texas |
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) is an independent feature-length documentary film and (2007) book that chronicles abusive practices in the credit card industry. Written and directed by James Scurlock, the film and book use interviews with creditors, debtors, academics, and others to illustrate its story. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, USA, in 2006 where it claimed the Special Jury Prize. It went on to several film fests including Seattle, Full Frame Documentary, Maui, New Zealand, Milwaukee International, Woodstock, Bergen, Leeds International, Oxford and IDFA (Amsterdam) film festivals. It was released in movie theaters in select cities in the United States in March 2007 through Magnolia Pictures. The DVD was released nationally in June 7, 2007, in the joint effort Magnolia Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment (a division of Netflix). The book Maxed Out is published by Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster. It was published in March 2007 in hardcover and in December 2007 in paperback.
Scurlock’s purpose for the film and book was to raise awareness of how credit and lending issues are affecting society. The main premises of the documentary and book are that banks and other creditors deliberately market to people who are more likely to have problems paying predatory lending and that the creditors benefit from connections to government, the debt collection industry, and from lawmaker apathy.
The non-profit organization Americans for Fairness in Lending (AFFIL) has organized screenings of Maxed Out around the country as part of its work. AFFIL sustains a formal collaboration with the film.
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Posted on May 26, 2009 under schusters of texas |
Cystic Fibrosis- a hereditary disorder affecting the exocrine glands. It causes the production of abnormally thick mucus, leading to the blockage of the pancreatic ducts, intestines, and bronchi and often resulting in respiratory infection.
Saturday May 16th, 2009. R.I.P. Heather Schuster of Dallas, Texas. =[
She needed a lung transplant in order to live, unfortunately time ran out. Commit for life, become an organ donor and save one. You know your doing a good thing.
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Posted on Dec 24, 2008 under schusters of texas |
Texas A&M University – Kingsville MANRRS and Wildlife Society Kiss A Pig Canned Food Drive. Dr. Gretta Schuster was our (un)lucky winner!
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Posted on Dec 12, 2008 under schusters of texas |
On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures and the protests of the victim’s family, he spent the last twelve years of his life on Death Row.
When Cahill found himself in Texas in December 2003, he visited Dominique at the request of Judge Sheila Murphy, who was working on the appeal of the case. In Dominique, he encountered a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment that few human beings ever attain. Cahill joined the fierce fight for Dominique’s life, even enlisting Dominique’s hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to make an historic visit to Dominique and to plead publicly for mercy. Cahill was so profoundly moved by Dominique’s extraordinary life that he was compelled to tell the tragic story of his unjust death at the hands of the state.
A Saint on Death Row will introduce you to a young man whose history, innate goodness, and final days you will never forget. It also shines a necessary light on America’s racist and deeply flawed legal system. A Saint on Death Row is an absorbing, sobering, and deeply spiritual story that illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for justice.
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Posted on Dec 12, 2008 under schusters of texas |
Author Michael Chorost visits Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book “Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human”. This event took place on June 30, 2008, as a part of of the Authors@google series.
Michael Chorost became a cyborg on October 1, 2001, the day his new ear was booted up. Born hard of hearing in 1964, he went completely deaf in his thirties. Rather than live in silence, he chose to have a computer surgically embedded in his skull to artificially restore his hearing. This is the story of Chorost’s journey — from deafness to hearing, from human to cyborg — and how it transformed him. The melding of silicon and flesh has long been the stuff of science fiction. But as Chorost reveals in this witty, poignant, and illuminating memoir, fantasy is now giving way to reality. For more information about Michael Chorost and Rebuilt, visit http://www.rebuilt-thebook.com
Michael Chorost has a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in San Francisco, where he writes, teaches, and consults.
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Posted on Oct 21, 2008 under schusters of texas |
Uma das oficinas de Elmer Schuster, o Cowboy Corvette, eu seu rancho na região de Amarillo (Novo México). Imagens colhidas durante a gravação do documentário sobre a Rota 66 pela equipe “Rotas Lendárias”. Filmado por: Gui Stockler
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Posted on Oct 21, 2008 under schusters of texas |
Placas do sítio do Elmer Schuster, o Cowboy Corvette, na cidade de Amarillo, no Novo México. Imagens colhidas durante a gravação do documentário sobre a Rota 66 pela equipe “Rotas Lendárias”. Filmado por: Gui Stockler
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Posted on Oct 18, 2008 under schusters of texas |
The archetypal rock & roller, Chuck Berry melded the blues, country, and a witty, defiant teen outlook into songs that have influenced virtually every rock musician in his wake. In Chuck Berry’s best work – about 40 songs (including “Round and Round,” “Carol,” “Brown Eyed Handsome Man,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Back in the U.S.A.,” “Little Queenie”), recorded mostly in the mid- and late ’50s – Berry matched some of the most resonant and witty lyrics in pop to music with a blues bottom and a country top, trademarking the results with his signature double-string guitar lick. On awarding Berry the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Award in December 2000, President Bill Clinton hailed him as “one of the 20th Century’s most influential musicians.” Berry learned guitar as a teenager. From 1944 to 1947 he was in reform school for attempted robbery; upon release he worked on the embly line at a General Motors Fisher body plant and studied hairdressing and cosmetology at night school. In 1952 he formed a trio with drummer Ebby Harding and pianist Johnnie Johnson, his keyboardist on and off for the next three decades. By 1955 the trio had become a top St. Louis–area club band, and Berry was supplementing his salary as a beautician with regular gigs. He met Muddy Waters in Chicago in May 1955, and Waters introduced him to Leonard Chess. Berry played Chess a demo tape that included “Ida Red”; Chess renamed it “Maybellene,” and sent it to disc jockey Alan Freed (who got a cowriting credit in the deal), and Berry had his first Top 10 hit. Through 1958 Berry had a string of hits. “School Day” (#3 pop, #1 R&B, 1957), “Rock & Roll Music” (#8 pop, #6 R&B, 1957), “Sweet Little Sixteen” (#2 pop, #1 R&B, 1958), and “Johnny B. Goode” (#8 pop, #5 R&B, 1958) were the biggest. With his famous “duckwalk,” Berry was a mainstay on the mid-’50s concert circuit. He also appeared in such films as Rock, Rock, Rock (1956), Mister Rock and Roll (1957), and Go, Johnny, Go (1959). Late in 1959 Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act: He had brought a 14-year-old Spanish-speaking Apache prostitute from Texas to check hats in his St. Louis nightclub, and after he fired her she complained to the police. Following a blatantly racist first trial was disallowed, he was found guilty at a second. Berry spent two years in federal prison in Indiana, leaving him embittered. By the time he was released in 1964, the British Invasion was underway, replete with Berry’s songs on early albums by the Beatles and Rolling Stones. He recorded a few more classics – including “Nadine” and “No Particular Place to Go” – although it has been speculated that they were written before his jail term. Since then he has written and recorded only sporadically, although he had a million-seller with “My Ding-a-Ling” (#1, 1972), and 1979′s Rockit was a creditable effort. He appeared in the 1979 film American Hot Wax. Through it all, Berry continued to tour internationally, often with pickup bands. In January 1986 Berry was among the first round of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year he published the at-times sexually and scatalogically explicit Chuck Berry: The Autobiography and was the subject of a documentary/tribute film, Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, for which his best-known disciple, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, organized a backing band. When not on the road, Berry lives in Wentzville, Missouri, where he owns the amusement complex Berry Park. Problems with the law and the Internal Revenue Service have plagued him through the years. Shortly before a June 1979 performance for Jimmy Carter at the White House, the IRS charged Berry with income tax evasion, and he served a 100-day prison term in 1979. In 1988 in New York City, he paid a $250 fine to settle a $5 million lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched in the mouth. In 1990 police raided his home and, finding 62 grams of marijuana and videotapes of women – one of whom was apparently a minor – using the restroom in a Berry Park restaurant, filed felony drug and child-abuse charges against Berry. In order to have the child-abuse charges dropped, Berry agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. Berry was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, placed on two years’ unsupervised probation, and ordered to donate $5,000 to a local hospital. As of this writing, Berry was still touring the world, sometimes with fellow classic rockers such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
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Posted on Oct 18, 2008 under schusters of texas |
The archetypal rock & roller, Chuck Berry melded the blues, country, and a witty, defiant teen outlook into songs that have influenced virtually every rock musician in his wake. In Chuck Berry’s best work – about 40 songs (including “Round and Round,” “Carol,” “Brown Eyed Handsome Man,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Back in the U.S.A.,” “Little Queenie”), recorded mostly in the mid- and late ’50s – Berry matched some of the most resonant and witty lyrics in pop to music with a blues bottom and a country top, trademarking the results with his signature double-string guitar lick. On awarding Berry the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Award in December 2000, President Bill Clinton hailed him as “one of the 20th Century’s most influential musicians.”
Berry learned guitar as a teenager. From 1944 to 1947 he was in reform school for attempted robbery; upon release he worked on the embly line at a General Motors Fisher body plant and studied hairdressing and cosmetology at night school. In 1952 he formed a trio with drummer Ebby Harding and pianist Johnnie Johnson, his keyboardist on and off for the next three decades. By 1955 the trio had become a top St. Louis–area club band, and Berry was supplementing his salary as a beautician with regular gigs. He met Muddy Waters in Chicago in May 1955, and Waters introduced him to Leonard Chess. Berry played Chess a demo tape that included “Ida Red”; Chess renamed it “Maybellene,” and sent it to disc jockey Alan Freed (who got a cowriting credit in the deal), and Berry had his first Top 10 hit.
Through 1958 Berry had a string of hits. “School Day” (#3 pop, #1 R&B, 1957), “Rock & Roll Music” (#8 pop, #6 R&B, 1957), “Sweet Little Sixteen” (#2 pop, #1 R&B, 1958), and “Johnny B. Goode” (#8 pop, #5 R&B, 1958) were the biggest. With his famous “duckwalk,” Berry was a mainstay on the mid-’50s concert circuit. He also appeared in such films as Rock, Rock, Rock (1956), Mister Rock and Roll (1957), and Go, Johnny, Go (1959).
Late in 1959 Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act: He had brought a 14-year-old Spanish-speaking Apache prostitute from Texas to check hats in his St. Louis nightclub, and after he fired her she complained to the police. Following a blatantly racist first trial was disallowed, he was found guilty at a second. Berry spent two years in federal prison in Indiana, leaving him embittered.
By the time he was released in 1964, the British Invasion was underway, replete with Berry’s songs on early albums by the Beatles and Rolling Stones. He recorded a few more classics – including “Nadine” and “No Particular Place to Go” – although it has been speculated that they were written before his jail term. Since then he has written and recorded only sporadically, although he had a million-seller with “My Ding-a-Ling” (#1, 1972), and 1979′s Rockit was a creditable effort. He appeared in the 1979 film American Hot Wax. Through it all, Berry continued to tour internationally, often with pickup bands.
In January 1986 Berry was among the first round of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year he published the at-times sexually and scatalogically explicit Chuck Berry: The Autobiography and was the subject of a documentary/tribute film, Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, for which his best-known disciple, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, organized a backing band.
When not on the road, Berry lives in Wentzville, Missouri, where he owns the amusement complex Berry Park. Problems with the law and the Internal Revenue Service have plagued him through the years. Shortly before a June 1979 performance for Jimmy Carter at the White House, the IRS charged Berry with income tax evasion, and he served a 100-day prison term in 1979. In 1988 in New York City, he paid a $250 fine to settle a $5 million lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched in the mouth. In 1990 police raided his home and, finding 62 grams of marijuana and videotapes of women – one of whom was apparently a minor – using the restroom in a Berry Park restaurant, filed felony drug and child-abuse charges against Berry. In order to have the child-abuse charges dropped, Berry agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. Berry was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, placed on two years’ unsupervised probation, and ordered to donate $5,000 to a local hospital.
As of this writing, Berry was still touring the world, sometimes with fellow classic rockers such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
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Posted on Oct 15, 2008 under schusters of texas |
The archetypal rock & roller, Chuck Berry melded the blues, country, and a witty, defiant teen outlook into songs that have influenced virtually every rock musician in his wake. In Chuck Berry’s best work – about 40 songs (including “Round and Round,” “Carol,” “Brown Eyed Handsome Man,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Back in the U.S.A.,” “Little Queenie”), recorded mostly in the mid- and late ’50s – Berry matched some of the most resonant and witty lyrics in pop to music with a blues bottom and a country top, trademarking the results with his signature double-string guitar lick. On awarding Berry the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Award in December 2000, President Bill Clinton hailed him as “one of the 20th Century’s most influential musicians.”
Berry learned guitar as a teenager. From 1944 to 1947 he was in reform school for attempted robbery; upon release he worked on the embly line at a General Motors Fisher body plant and studied hairdressing and cosmetology at night school. In 1952 he formed a trio with drummer Ebby Harding and pianist Johnnie Johnson, his keyboardist on and off for the next three decades. By 1955 the trio had become a top St. Louis–area club band, and Berry was supplementing his salary as a beautician with regular gigs. He met Muddy Waters in Chicago in May 1955, and Waters introduced him to Leonard Chess. Berry played Chess a demo tape that included “Ida Red”; Chess renamed it “Maybellene,” and sent it to disc jockey Alan Freed (who got a cowriting credit in the deal), and Berry had his first Top 10 hit.
Through 1958 Berry had a string of hits. “School Day” (#3 pop, #1 R&B, 1957), “Rock & Roll Music” (#8 pop, #6 R&B, 1957), “Sweet Little Sixteen” (#2 pop, #1 R&B, 1958), and “Johnny B. Goode” (#8 pop, #5 R&B, 1958) were the biggest. With his famous “duckwalk,” Berry was a mainstay on the mid-’50s concert circuit. He also appeared in such films as Rock, Rock, Rock (1956), Mister Rock and Roll (1957), and Go, Johnny, Go (1959).
Late in 1959 Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act: He had brought a 14-year-old Spanish-speaking Apache prostitute from Texas to check hats in his St. Louis nightclub, and after he fired her she complained to the police. Following a blatantly racist first trial was disallowed, he was found guilty at a second. Berry spent two years in federal prison in Indiana, leaving him embittered.
By the time he was released in 1964, the British Invasion was underway, replete with Berry’s songs on early albums by the Beatles and Rolling Stones. He recorded a few more classics – including “Nadine” and “No Particular Place to Go” – although it has been speculated that they were written before his jail term. Since then he has written and recorded only sporadically, although he had a million-seller with “My Ding-a-Ling” (#1, 1972), and 1979′s Rockit was a creditable effort. He appeared in the 1979 film American Hot Wax. Through it all, Berry continued to tour internationally, often with pickup bands.
In January 1986 Berry was among the first round of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year he published the at-times sexually and scatalogically explicit Chuck Berry: The Autobiography and was the subject of a documentary/tribute film, Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, for which his best-known disciple, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, organized a backing band.
When not on the road, Berry lives in Wentzville, Missouri, where he owns the amusement complex Berry Park. Problems with the law and the Internal Revenue Service have plagued him through the years. Shortly before a June 1979 performance for Jimmy Carter at the White House, the IRS charged Berry with income tax evasion, and he served a 100-day prison term in 1979. In 1988 in New York City, he paid a $250 fine to settle a $5 million lawsuit from a woman he allegedly punched in the mouth. In 1990 police raided his home and, finding 62 grams of marijuana and videotapes of women – one of whom was apparently a minor – using the restroom in a Berry Park restaurant, filed felony drug and child-abuse charges against Berry. In order to have the child-abuse charges dropped, Berry agreed to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. Berry was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, placed on two years’ unsupervised probation, and ordered to donate $5,000 to a local hospital.
As of this writing, Berry was still touring the world, sometimes with fellow classic rockers such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001)
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