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Why? Guy it thoughtlessly bounced into a mud puddle.

a carefree, and sober, aloc just bathed and shampooed(with conditioning shampoo, of course) his basketball. as a jazz lover, do you have an eccentricity or two? aloc has heard tales that on a recording session where charlie parker's horn wasnt sounding just right, they poured water in it.

have used it since 2oo4, but i prefer outlook express for mail. i keep IE around for the occasional item firefox wont open.

It doesn't seem like that big of a drop. Guy plus it has gone up an awful lot recently. All the same, such volatility is not a good sign. We need a correction. the swings have seemed much more volatile during the last 5 or 6 weeks.

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But don't re-use them for more than a week at most. There was a pretty gross segment on all the bacteria in water bottles that were being re-used. Now this was specifically on people refilling store-bought bottles (which you can't wash) with tap water, but I would suspect that even with the sports bottles, most people don't wash them frequently enough. thank you. i didnt know that. you may have saved me some serious trouble.

technology is going to be one(or more) step(s) ahead of testing procedures. many athletes bodies from now on are going to be products of sports-science. arguing against this will be about as successful, in my opinion, as arguing against abortion.

just a sincere effort to help a member or two. aloc hasnt been drinking enough water, and too much pepsi, and still has an occasional pepsi. Thanks for the clarify. As for me, I drink way too much soda (all diet and caffiene-free). Trying to migrate to tea and coffee - only the 'quality' stuff. Doing better than a gallon a day of good ol' tap water as part of exercise/sports routine. carrying a plastic water bottle around is an easily acquired habit.

tonight they had taped outdoor professional bowling. this would screw up lane conditions royally and all for tv.

X 2!!!!!

you are already on board! http://www.music.fsu.edu/mckee.htm now you get us tickets for florida-florida state!

just a sincere effort to help a member or two. aloc hasnt been drinking enough water, and too much pepsi, and still has an occasional pepsi.

what's the brand, please? Bossa Nova is the brand that I see around here the most. So good, and WAY more anti-oxidants than Pomegranite. thanks

what's the brand, please?

Hasan is a beautiful alto player whom i have heard several times. he respects the tradition and has studied the masters and is full of fire. There are two opportunities this weekend to catch The Rejuvenation Trio as they kick off their summer tour throughout the Midwest. The Rejuvenation Trio is: Hasan Abdur-Razzaq- alto saxophone, cello Tom Abbs- bass, cello Ryan Jewell- drums, singing bowls, bike wheels and more. This is Hasan's first ever tour, and we'd all love to see it get off with a bang, so please come out and support! Check out what AllAboutJazz.com critic Mark Corroto had to say about Hasan: "truly, his inspired playing invokes the living spirit of Albert Ayler." Go Hasan go!! - So the first show is Friday at Milo Elektric, a cd release party for Hasan's recording of the same name - Rejuvenation, that features the trio plus guests Jenna Barvitski on violin and yours truly on piano for a couple of tracks. Show starts 8:30 with an opener featuring Sheryl Banks-Smith (former dancer and vocalist for Sun Ra), with Brett Allen ( Billy Bang)- guitar, Stephen Smith- percussion, and Steve Perakis- bass. Admission will be on a sliding scale, 5 to 10 bucks. Then Saturday night, the guys will be playing at Cafe Bourbon Street on a bill with touring act Mothguts (grindcore meets free jazz), and also with Starlight Fleecing, a Ryan Jewell/Larry Marotta/David Reed project. The order of the bill is as yet determined but 10 pm would probably be a good time to show up. So please come out and support if you can. Exciting, impassioned, cathartic music is promised! Best, G

lots of acoustic meat at the start, and well into the work. the electronics start quite later. all the really creative cats want to do their own stuff. bet georgy lewis could get into it.

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but be careful how far you throw it: ----------------------------------------------------------- Kenny G Pays Girl's Bills after Throwing Incident Crooner Kenny G has paid a girl's medical bill after she was wounded from objects thrown out of his holiday villa. Nine-year-old Brooke Porter was at a beach in Los Angeles when she was struck by two energy bars thrown from the musician's compound. She was hospitalized and needed four stitches. Two teenagers on the property -- who are not related to Kenny -- are believed to have thrown the objects, according to county sheriff officials. Kenny's attorney, Lee Blackman says, "I have been informed a Power Bar hit the girl accidentally on the head. It was just an accident." He also added that the musician's wife, Lyndie, paid the girl's medical bill. However, Porter's parents claim their daughter and her 12-year-old brother were targeted because the boy suffers from Down's syndrome and autism

espn's(and fox's) high caffeine sports reporting has been on aloc's do not watch list for some years. he also wishes their live events had a dump button where one could get rid of all the inane graphics. he would pay for that. when aloc wants graphics, he plays a computer game

the piece aloc confused many with , including himelf, was the magnificent 1950's varese composition, 'deserts,' which would make a great hourlong concert jazz piece.

thanks and apologies. this piece began with substantial percussion and then had a flute solo with orchestral backing, leading to a heavily orchestrated with significant brass section. i am busy at the moment but will check the recording in about an hour.

edgar varese' ionisation would seem to be a lovely vehicle for a small or large improvising group. has any group taken a swing at it? the percussive beginning and the flute solo, and the layers would seem more than perfect to tear into, or is it new music that is too ancient?

now arent these criteria b.s.? quoted from the article: Back in 2003 Tanaka spent more than $3,000 and more than three months gathering letters of support in order to obtain an O-1 visa, commonly referred to as an artist’s visa. He was denied. In its letter of denial and on its Web site, the INS mentions a Grammy Award as suitable proof of artistic merit; the Web site also lists, “key roles in prior major productions; significant recognition in the field by critics, etc.; major roles in productions with distinguished reputation; major commercial success; significant recognition from governmental organizations or other recognized experts, record of high salary in relation to others in the field." Of course, even the greatest jazz musicians rarely bring in a “high salary," let alone young talents who are still developing a distinctive voice. It’s hardly news that folks who determine artistic merit are bureaucrats with little to no knowledge of the arts. In order to stay, Tanaka enrolled at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a master’s degree in “percussion pedagogy” in May of 2006. He then pursued an “optional practical training” program over the last year. Now he’s at the end of the road, and without the resources to reapply for the O-1 again he’s leaving the country. Tanaka hopes to return at some point in the near future; gaining employment through a Japanese firm is a slight possibility for him, but nothing is certain. I just saw Tanaka play a superb duet with saxophonist Greg Ward on Wednesday at the Hideout, and it only reinforced what a loss this is for the city. Aside from the above-mentioned groups, he's also worked with the Howling Hex, the Cairo Gang, and groups led by Josh Berman, Keefe Jackson, and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten. He’s leaving the day after his gig at Rodan, where he'll perform with A Cushicle, a trio with bassist Jason Ajemian and guitarist Jeff Parker, and video artist Selina Trepp, who's held a steady residency at the bar for years now. As usual, I’m sure he’ll play his ass off.

just heard the stride right. fatha on organ and piano. fine music.

PAUL B. FARRELL Goldman Sachs guru warns of war-debt failure Is America becoming a global credit risk? How to get back on track By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Last Update: 7:02 PM ET Jul 23, 2007 ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Subprimes downgraded. Will Moody's downgrade America's debt next? Actually, that's already happening; our credit rating is collapsing with the dollar. Foreign banks are dumping dollar reserves, while we gorge on cheap toys and bad pet food. Actually, our biggest "terrorist" threat is internal: Distorted values are downgrading our nation's "creditworthiness." We're like out-of-control kids with stolen credit cards, spending our future with no plans to repay. Recently Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), appeared before the U.S. House Budget Committee to "discuss an issue of great economic, financial and national security importance to our country -- the growing dependence of the United States on foreign capital." Currently we import $1 trillion new debt annually, with no repayment plans. That's a historic break from over two centuries of American policy. Hormats was in Washington with warnings from his brilliant new book, "The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars." He traces the history of American wartime financing from the Revolution through the War of 1812, the Civil War, the two World Wars and the Cold War to the present. Conclusion: "One central, constant theme emerges: sound national finances have proved to be indispensable to the country's military strength" and long-term national security. 1776 to Iraq, national security demands fiscal responsibility America's long tradition of war financing began with Alexander Hamilton: "In January 1790, Hamilton, by then the country's Treasury secretary, confronted the American people with a stark fact: the nation had run up a huge debt fighting the Revolutionary War. This debt, he wrote, was the 'price of liberty,' and the new government had to repay it. The future creditworthiness of the United States, and ultimately the security and ability to finance future wars, would depend on how successfully and faithfully this was done." Hamilton's principles have kept America's credit strong through every war since the Revolution ... until the Iraq War. Since then, "although U.S. leaders have warned that the war against terrorism could last for decades, the country lacks a multidecade financial strategy to address the challenge." Iraq tossed the lessons of history out the window. Hormats says that despite the oft-repeated remark that 9/11 "changed everything, in the area of fiscal policy, however, it changed nothing. The country is pursuing a pre-9/11 fiscal policy in a post-9/11 world." That assessment comes from someone who worked inside Washington for over a decade before joining Goldman Sachs in the 1980s. Unsustainable debt is weakening national security America's new faith-based guns-and-butter policy is hurting both guns and butter. The war is costing us $12 billion a month. Hormats examined the Congressional Budget Office's projections for domestic costs: "In 2006, spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the federal debt amounted to just under 60% of government revenues" and "if they continue on their current path, they will account for two-thirds by 2015." * Social security from $550 billion to $960 billion * Medicare from $372 billion to over $900 billion * Medicaid from $181 billion to $390 billion Worse yet, these commitments will continue skyrocketing in later decades. The CBO projects the federal debt rising from 40% of GDP to 100% in the next 25 years: "Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, and ultimately our national security." Hormats warns of the risks of this gross departure from Hamilton's principles: "Of late, the precedents and experiences of past generations have been cast aside. The 9/11 attacks were seen by many legislators as a license to spend more money on nonsecurity programs, and Americans have not been called to make sacrifices. Tax cuts and spending increased on politically popular security-irrelevant domestic programs have been enacted as if there were no expensive defense programs to be funded." Turning point in Iraq, where 'deficits don't matter' In my opinion, the turning point occurred in late 2002. Remember, the Afghan War was hot. America was in recession and a bear market. The surpluses of the 1990s rapidly disappeared. Corporate scandals were damaging our global standing. Washington was pushing a second round of tax cuts. And the Iraq invasion was imminent. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, true to Hamiltonian principles, warned the White House of a coming fiscal crisis. The vice president retorted: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." (Hormats tells me Reagan never said that.) Soon after, Cheney "fired" O'Neill ... and Hamilton's principles of sound war financing were dead. Unfortunately, Washington's radical new faith-based financing is sabotaging national security. America's unsustainable deficits are making us extremely vulnerable to terrorists whose goal is to "attack the United States, perhaps with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons capable of killing enormous numbers of people and seriously disrupting the American economy," targeting a "major port or transportation center." Hormats says America is now "relying on faith over experience, hoping that sustained growth will erase deficits and that the ballooning costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be manageable in the coming decades without difficult reforms." Yet economists now estimate these entitlements can only be "reformed" by either a cut in benefits or an increase in taxes greater that 40%. In short, today's faith-based economics is failing us. The current Treasury secretary also appears to be supporting this new approach: Henry Paulson, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, recently told Fortune that "this is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime." Well, that sure sounds to me like yet another rejection of Hamiltonian principles in favor of the new faith-based policy, which assumes that global economies will always be strong and, therefore, foreign capital will indefinitely bankroll America's war machine at a low cost. The danger is, it also assumes that American taxpayers will be able to indefinitely pay the interest costs of our burgeoning foreign debt ... on top of exploding unfunded domestic entitlements in Social Security and Medicare. Time to rediscover 'Hamilton's gift' of war financing Hormats was being much too diplomatic in summing up his warning to the House Budget Committee: "If government debt continues to pile up, deficits rise to stratospheric levels and heavy dependence on foreign capital grows, borrowing the money will be very costly. If America remains on its dangerous financial course Hamilton's gift to the nation -- the blessing of sound financing -- will be squandered." The truth is, America's leaders have already squandered "Hamilton's gift," and along with it, more than two centuries of experience, replacing it with a new "faith-based" policy: "Deficits don't matter." No wonder Main Street Americans have a "gut instinct" that we're a disaster waiting to happen. Not only are we "transferring an inordinate burden to future generations," says Hormats, Washington's undisciplined spending and total lack of a financial repayment plan is undercutting our national security and exposing America to the worst-case scenario: Another domestic terrorist attack that would trigger a "massive disruption of our economy" and a meltdown of America's credit rating throughout the world. The truth is, America desperately needs a new "Hamilton" who understands that in calculating "the price of liberty," not only do deficits matter, Americans must have a plan to repay our debts ... if we want a strong credit rating that insures our national security for future generations. End of Story